Appeal No. 1999-0828 Page 12
Application No. 08/526,743
then open them at a later time. We find that in similar fashion,
in appellants' invention, a customer can change a variable in a
default quote and obtain a new default quote which may be saved
as "Save As New Quote" so that, upon subsequent use of the
system, the modified quote that was saved is then considered to
be the default quote (specification, page 9, line 15 - page 10,
line 6). Assuming arguendo, that in Greulich, the opening
and use of a saved file having a quote is not considered as
having a default quote, we find that it would have been obvious
to a skilled artisan to use a quote in a saved file as a default
quote in view of the teaching in Greulich (col. 2, lines 3-11)
that:
A number of advantages associated with the
invention are: the ability to allow the customer to lay
out its own forms on personal computers; eliminates or
reduces labor intensive portions of business form order
preparation, such as design and composition; manages
and automates the entire order entry process; decreases
the time required to produce and deliver short run
orders of business forms; and reduces the
manufacturer’s overhead costs in producing short run
orders.
In view of these advantages associated with the automated form
creation system of Greulich, and Greulich's disclosure of saving
files, overwriting files, and opening files, we find that a
skilled artisan would have considered it obvious to open saved
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