Appeal No. 2001-0615
Application No. 08/741,459
examiner considers this teaching as a description of a first party “selecting” the remote
entity, and the sending/receiving of the document as an inference that a connection is
made.
We have reviewed Davidson and we do not find anything therein that suggests a
plurality of entities that are selectively connectable by the first party (the loan applicant).
Davidson describes a loan applicant providing required information and sending the
application to a computer network of the financial institution but we find no indication
therein that the loan applicant has any choice as to which one of the financial
institution’s computers the applicant is connected. We find nothing in Davidson
regarding the financial institution’s computers being “selectively connectable” by the
loan applicant to the loan applicant’s computer and the examiner, while arguing that
Davidson provides for such a feature, fails to point to any specific portion of Davidson
where the alleged teaching may be found.
Since the examiner has failed to specifically point to anything in the applied
references suggesting the claimed limitation of a “plurality of remote entities selectively
connectable by said first party to at least one local computer workstation,” a limitation of
every independent claim, the examiner has not established a prima facie case of
obviousness, within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. § 103.
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