Appeal No. 2002-0419
Application No. 08/457,732
find no express teaching of a request of pickup of the parcel(s) nor a “means for
receiving a parcel pickup request” or a step at an intelligent terminal of “transmitting said
shipping record of said parcel to said parcel pickup request receiving means . . . .”
The examiner maintains throughout the argument section that the manifest data
is stored and the data is transferred to the shipper in one manner or another. (See
answer at page 16 et seq.) While this may be true, it still does not evidence the
existence or suggest a “means for receiving a parcel pickup request” or a step at an
intelligent terminal of “transmitting said shipping record of said parcel to said parcel
pickup request receiving means . . . .” While we agree with the examiner that the
parcels must get to the carrier by some means, Dlugos does not evidence a means or
communication beyond the teaching at col. 13, lines 30-32, that “[t]ypically, this will
occur at a regularly scheduled pick up stop that the carrier’s representative makes each
day at the shipper’s premises.” The only teaching or suggestion we find within the four
corners of Dlugos is a scheduled pickup that would not involve or suggest a “means for
receiving a parcel pickup request” or a step at an intelligent terminal of “transmitting said
shipping record of said parcel to said parcel pickup request receiving means . . .” The
numerous citations by the examiner of the recording of the date and time of delivery or
pickup similarly do not evidence the existence of or suggest a “means for receiving a
parcel pickup request” or a step at an intelligent terminal of “transmitting said shipping
record of said parcel to said parcel pickup request receiving means . . .”
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