Appeal No. 2003-0989
Application No. 09/481,740
necessarily weigh all of the evidence and argument." In re
Oetiker, 977 F.2d at 1445, 24 USPQ2d at 1444. "[T]he Board must
not only assure that the requisite findings are made, based on
evidence of record, but must also explain the reasoning by which
the findings are deemed to support the agency's conclusion." In
re Lee, 277 F.3d 1338, 1344, 61 USPQ2d 143, 1434 (Fed. Cir.
2002).
Appellant argues that independent claims 1, 6 and 11 require
that an objective reputation profile be built based at least in
part on notifications (e.g., what actually happened during the
fulfillment of the transaction, not what people said happened and
how they felt about it). Appellant argues that the specification
is clear that objective reputation profile is very different than
subjective feedback and that the present invention is focusing on
providing objective feedback. Appellant argues that Ebay
provides only subjective feedback as an aggregation of people's
opinion affirmatively submitted to Ebay. Ebay does not include a
trusted intermediary to automatically generate an objective
reputation profile based on what actually happened in various
transactions. Appellant further argues that Feezell only gathers
data about items available for purchase by a buyer. The data
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