Appeal No. 2002-1875
Application 09/245,776
(pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the examiner's
rejection, and to the replacement appeal brief (Paper No. 15)
(pages referred to as "Br__") and reply brief (Paper No. 17)
(pages referred to as "RBr__") for a statement of appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Anticipation
Cupps - claims 1-8
Initially, we interpret claim 1 to correspond to the
description of Figs. 4, 5, and 5a-d at page 12, line 6 to
page 14, line 3 of the specification. Figure 4 shows a home page
and Figs. 5 and 5a-5d show a plurality of additional pages where
Fig. 5d is an order entry page for a customer's order. The Smart
Order Form of Figs. 5b and 5c provides a list of questions for a
user, such as a customer service representative, to ask the
customer and the responses are used to populate the order entry
page of Fig. 5d. The answers to the questions are not filled in
by the customer, but by the user.
Cupps discloses an online ordering system for food products.
The process for customer ordering is shown in figure 11 and
described at column 9, line 34 to column 11, line 34.
The examiner finds that Cupps teaches "a graphical user
interface having a home page and a plurality of additional
pages . . . " at column 9, lines 41-46. The examiner finds that
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