Appeal No. 2003-0205
Application 09/504,502
of the equipment piece’s old ownership data in the computer
database. Claims 1 and 9 require checking the prior ownership
data by comparing it to data in a bill of sale which includes old
ownership data, and claim 16 requires checking the prior
ownership data by comparing it to sales-oriented data which
includes purchaser and seller data from outside sale transaction
sources.
Rose, Jr. discloses a method for tracking transactions for
items of value such as motor vehicles, wherein the items’ title
histories, which include all previous owners and the current
owner, are maintained in a centralized computer database (col. 1,
lines 10-13; col. 7, lines 19-20 and 34-35). If the transaction
is the sale of a used item, the current owner is converted to the
prior owner and the new owner’s name and address and other
appropriate information are entered into the database (col. 13,
lines 23-26). The computer then validates all existing data to
make sure it is accurate (col. 14, lines 23-25). “Once
verification of authenticity of the [used vehicle] asset and its
current owner is made, a digital code is then given to the asset
(and all of its pertinent information) so that, in a future
search application a simple mathematical comparison of the unique
digital coding of the alpha-numeric symbols of the VIN [vehicle
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