Appeal No. 1999-0828 Page 15
Application No. 08/526,743
a price when enough information has been received to calculate a
price." Appellants conclude that because Greulich does not
adjust the price displayed in response to each change of a
variable that affects the price, that the rejection of claims 4
and 11 is based upon improper hindsight.
We make reference to the final rejection (page 5) and the
examiner's answer (page 7) for the examiner's position. Of note
is the passage in Greulich (col. 8, lines 66-68) that follows the
portion of Greulich relied upon by appellants. This passage
recites "[a]s illustrated in the other parts of FIG. 9, this
price is recalculated and updated as more options (e.g.
perforations) are added." We construe these portions of Greulich
to refer to two situations. The first, as argued by appellants,
is that when a customer is filling in variables 31 through 38
(figure 4), along with any allowable options (figures 5A and 5B),
pricing information is stored and ultimately used to calculate a
price when enough information has been received to calculate a
price. The second situation, as argued by the examiner, is when
a saved order has been opened to start a new price quote. In
this instance, upon changing a variable, once the information for
the variable has been supplied, the price is recalculated. For
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