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").
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