Appeal No. 1999-0828 Page 10
Application No. 08/526,743
addition, under the selection "OPEN ORDER" of figure 6, the user
can select and open a file, which brings the user to the "FILL IN
ORDER SCREEN" as shown in figure 9V.
From these teachings of Greulich, we agree with the examiner
(answer, page 4), that upon opening a saved order, (or a
completed screen 40 without an order having been placed), that
the customer will have a default quote without having to add any
additional information; i.e., without any interaction by the
user. We consider an opened file where screen 40 was completely
filled out before the file was saved to be a default quote since
the customer does not have to input any parameters.
As stated by the court in In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362,
1369, 47 USPQ2d 1523, 1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998) “[t]he name of the
game is the claim.” Claims will be given their broadest
reasonable interpretation consistent with the specification, and
limitations appearing in the specification are not to be read
into the claims. In re Etter, 756 F.2d 852, 858, 225 USPQ 1, 5
(Fed. cir. 1985). Claim 1 recites "displaying a default quote
depicting a default value for each of a plurality of variables."
Claim 1, as broadly drafted, does not recite how the default
quote is obtained. As drafted, the above quoted language of
claim 1 reads on opening a completely filled out screen 40 in
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