Ex Parte ZENNER et al - Page 8



          Appeal No. 2003-0133                                                        
          Application 08/940,702                                                      

          evidence of record, but must also explain the reasoning by which            
          the findings are deemed to support the agency’s conclusion.”  In            
          re Lee, 277 F.3d 1338, 1344, 61 USPQ2d 1430, 1434 (Fed. Cir.                
          2002).                                                                      
               Claims 4 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being           
          unpatentable over Williams in view of Munsil.  We will not                  
          sustain this rejection for the same reasons as we pointed out               
          above.  Furthermore, we fail to find that Munsil provides                   
          evidence of the limitations recited in appellants’ claim 1 in               
          which claims 4 and 7 are dependent upon.                                    
               Claims 1, 2, 5, 8 through 12, and 25 through 27 stand                  
          rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Hogan             
          in view of Reilly.  Appellants argue that neither Hogan nor                 
          Reilly teach or suggest a method or apparatus for sorting,                  
          highlighting, or filtering detailed billing records contained               
          within a bill obtained in electronic form, for formatting field             
          information within each detailed billing record, or for                     
          displaying the detailed billing records and formatted field                 
          information contained within a bill in accordance with criteria             
          entered by the user as recited in appellants’ claims.  See page 8           
          of appeal the brief.                                                        

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