Appeal No. 2002-0419
Application No. 08/457,732
The examiner does not rely on the teachings of Haddock or Weiss with respect to
teaching or suggesting 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 . . .” Therefore, either of these references does not
remedy the noted deficiency in the base combination. Therefore, even if we assume
that the teachings of the references were properly combinable, the combination would
not teach or fairly suggest the invention as recited in independent claim 16 and its
dependent claims 2, 3, 7-13, 17-21.
Independent claim 23 contains similar limitations to a central computer and
transmitting said delivery information and parcel pickup request to said central computer
in response to receiving said delivery information which is not taught or suggested by
the above combination. Therefore, even if we assume that the teachings of the
references were properly combinable, the combination would not teach or fairly suggest
the invention as recited in independent claim 23 and its dependent claims 24, 28-31, 33.
With respect to independent claim 41, claim 41 contains similar limitations to a
central computer and transmitting said delivery information to said central computer in
response to receiving said delivery information which is not taught or suggested by the
above combination. Additionally, independent claim 41 recites that the central computer
is configured to receive a parcel pickup request and to download a parcel shipping
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