Appeal No. 2002-0012
Application 09/545,174
The substance of each independent claim 1, 2, 3 and 16 on
appeal requires in part that a first computer or subsystem store
data representing "a plurality of creator identifiers and creator
contact data corresponding to each of the creator identifiers" as
set forth in claim 1. The end of each claim requires that a
network communicate an otherwise recited revealed creator
identifier from a second computer or subsystem "to said first
computer to obtain the creator contact data corresponding to the
one of the plurality of creator identifiers from said first
memory" as set forth in claim 1. It is the interaction of these
features recited in some manner in each of the independent claims
on appeal that leads us to presently conclude that the examiner's
original rejection within 35 U.S.C. § 103 must be reversed.
A review of pages 6-9 of our original opinion leads us to
conclude that we initially set forth an incomplete consideration
of all the features of the independent claims on appeal and of
the resulting combination of the teachings and suggestions of
Shear in view of Powell. Although we remain of the view that the
two references are properly combinable within 35 U.S.C. § 103, it
is our present view now that the claimed invention would not have
resulted.
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