Appeal No. 2003-0957 Page 7
Application No. 09/074,074
Cir. 1993) (quoting In re Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1051, 189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA
1976)).
Here, Thomson's "invention . . . involves the creation and use of an integrated
billing document which includes at least two portions; namely, an invoice or bill, and a
check document, each of which have printed and encoded thereon certain particular
data pertaining to the payee, payer, the amount of the bill, the payer's account number
and the payer's accounts receivable number." Col. 15, ll. 30-38. "This [invention]
includes the functions of generation of the initial customer and financial institution
control file data base from source data and from the extraction of data from other data
base sources. . . ." Col. 12, ll. 63-66. "The contents of the file includes such elements
as," id. at ll. 67-68, "[c]ustomer name and address," col. 13, l. 4; "[p]ayee name, id at
l. 11; and "[v]ariable message data. . . ." Id. at l. 17.
For its part, Baggarly discloses "an inserter machine which includes optional
advertising inserts for stuffing with a customer's envelope if and only if the additional
weight of the inserts does not increase the postage amount required by the stuffed
envelope." Col. 2, ll. 20-24. The reference explains that "[w]hile [a] statement of
account and . . . general interest and special interest informational enclosures [] are
high priority 'required" items for inclusion in a customer's envelope, . . . advertising
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