Appeal No. 2002-1697 Page 3 Application No. 09/023,039 receive an electronic mail ("e-mail") message containing and update (i.e., "sticker") to the prospectus. Alternatively, he might later receive an e-mail message notifying him that a particular site on the World Wide Web has posted the sticker and that the investor should view the sticker by a certain date. (Id. at 3.) The appellants boast that their invention allows financial companies to save time and money when attracting potential investors. (Appeal Br. at 2.) A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following claim. 13. A method for obtaining consent for computer-aided delivery of compliance information, comprising: providing to an individual compliance information on a first computer; prompting the individual with the first computer to consent to subsequent computer-aided delivery of additional compliance information; and communicating the individual's consent from the first computer to a second computer. Claims 1-24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over U.S. Patent No. 5,457,746 ("Dolphin") and U.S. Patent No. 5,315,634 ("Tanaka").Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007