Appeal No. 2003-0238
Application No. 08/886,349
would have been obvious to the skilled artisan to identify the
target audience on-line as well. Accordingly, the references do
suggest to the skilled artisan that the survey information used
to produce the survey is obtained from, and a target audience for
the survey is identified by, on-line interaction between the
survey requestor and the Internet-based survey manager, as
recited in claims 39 and 45.
Regarding claim 43, appellant argues (Brief, pages 22-23)
that the examiner used hindsight, rather than any teachings from
the references, for generating a survey report and making it
available on-line via the Internet-based manager. Greenfield
Online explains (in paragraph 10) that research studies that
previously took a week or two can now be "designed, administered
and analyzed almost overnight and ready for the weekly marketing
meeting" (emphasis ours). Thus, Greenfield Online analyzes the
data on-line and apparently forms some sort of report for the
weekly meeting. Similarly, Dacko (in paragraph 23) mentions that
computer-based survey methods allow for encoding the data into a
computer data base. Although neither discusses making the report
available on-line, appellant admits (Brief, page 23) that "global
access to survey results has been available for many year [sic]
through postal mail or electronic mail." Thus, the issue is
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