Appeal No. 1999-0828 Page 11
Application No. 08/526,743
Greulich that has been previously saved by the customer. Because
the quote 41 and additional quotes 42, based upon different
quantities, are provided without input from the user, we consider
the quotes 41 and 42 to be default quotes. We are not persuaded
by appellants' assertion (reply brief, pages 2 and 3) that:
However, Fig. 9V requires the user to "FILL IN ORDER
SCREEN" when "opening" a selected file name i.e., a
stored order. This is contrary to a default quote
wherein the user is not required to "fill in" anything.
That is the point of displaying a default quote: the
user is not forced to enter information before seeing a
typical quote with quantity and price information. If
a user of Greulich opens a saved order, even if it were
completed after filling it in, the user doesn't know
whether it's a typical quote or not because it is not a
default.
We find that upon opening a saved file, where screen 40 was
completely filled in and a quote obtained, that unless the user
makes changes to the variables requiring the price to be
recalculated (col. 8, lines 66-68) the price provided in the
opened quote is a default quote because the quote is obtained by
the customer without having to change any variables. In
addition, we find that the customer does not have to fill in all
of the fields with default values because the values with the
quote are already present in the fill order screen. If the order
screen referred to in figure 9V was blank and had to be filled
in, this would defeat the purpose of being able to save files and
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