Appeal No. 2003-0901
Application 09/303,368
processing occurs prior to any ESO being routed by a router to an
order processing system [brief, pages 5-8].
With respect to independent claim 1, the examiner points
out in detail how he reads the claimed invention on Blinn. The
examiner notes that Blinn essentially anticipates the claimed
invention except for the fact that the examiner has interpreted
the claimed invention as requiring separate systems for the pre-
processing and for the processing. The examiner finds that Blinn
teaches all the functions of the claimed invention except that
the pre-processing and processing of Blinn are integrated into a
single device. The examiner responds that the pre-processing
steps of Blinn are performed before the processing steps and
before any actual order placement [answer, pages 6-10].
Appellants respond that the present invention is meant for
intercepting an already completed purchase order between two
trading partners and then pre-processing the completed purchase
order before re-submitting the order to an appropriate order
fulfillment system. Appellants argue that Blinn does not perform
what is termed pre-processing by the present invention.
Appellants argue that the “pre-processing” in Blinn occurs before
the purchase order is completed so that it is not pre-processing
as intended by the claimed invention [reply brief, pages 4-7].
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