Appeal No. 2003-0238
Application No. 08/886,349
claim 38 is lacking from the references: a survey is produced at
an Internet-based survey manager based on survey information
provided by a survey requestor. We direct appellant's attention
to paragraphs 2-6 of Greenfield Online. Greenfield explains (in
paragraphs 2, 3, and 5) that they are a market research firm with
an "in-house hardware and software system linked to the World
Wide Web" and with clients who are marketers with World Wide Web
sites. Clearly, Greenfield is an Internet-based survey manager,
and the clients are marketers requesting a survey. Furthermore,
as Greenfield conducts quantitative and qualitative research,
Greenfield produces the surveys. Although, Greenfield does not
explicitly state that the survey is produced based on information
provided by the client, it would have been obvious to use
information provided by the client to assure that the survey best
represented the needs of the client. Accordingly, we are not
persuaded by appellant's argument.
Appellant (Brief, pages 20-22) argues that none of the
references teach or suggest that the survey information used to
produce the survey is obtained from on-line interaction between
the survey requestor and the Internet-based survey manager, as
recited in claims 39 and 45. In particular, appellant contends
(Brief, page 21) that the references fail to teach identifying a
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