Appeal No. 2002-1308
Application No. 09/161,787
in support of the rejection, and to appellant's Brief (Paper No.
9, filed August 29, 2001) for appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied prior
art references, and the respective positions articulated by
appellant and the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we
will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 20
substantially for the reasons given by appellant at pages 7-25 of
the Brief, as amplified infra.
The examiner asserts (Answer, pages 4-7) that Tebbe
discloses all of the steps of claim 1 except the last step of
providing interested network member data pertaining to each said
interested selected matching member to the offering network
member. The examiner contends that IntraLinks discloses that
last step. Then the examiner states (Answer, page 8) that
IntraLinks' IntraLoanTM "does not explicitly disclose the
capabilities to search a loan participation database in response
to a loan participation offer for matching loan criteria data
matching at least a portion of said requested loan data."
Further, the examiner asserts, that "there is no explicit search
for participants willing to accept loans based on details beyond
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