Appeal No. 2003-2165 Page 10
Application No. 09/067,093
admission stamp by the database; downloading by the database the stamp into the card
and admitting by the control module the ticket holder to said sporting event based upon
said admission stamp; and subsequently cancelling including automatically earmarking
by the card said sporting ticket with said admission stamp to prevent multiple
admissions to said sporting event via the same ticket. . . ." Giving effect to the
limitations, the claim requires automatically compiling an admission stamp, downloading
the stamp into a portable card that also stores a sporting ticket, admitting a person to a
sporting event based on the admission stamp, and automatically earmarking the
sporting ticket with the admission stamp to prevent multiple admissions to the sporting
event via the same ticket.
2. Obviousness Determination
The first passage of Hiroya cited by the examiner describes how "the electronic
ticket vending and refunding device 1 produces ticket information data 610 comprising a
ticket publication source, an event name, a day and time, a place name, a seat number,
and a serial number (Step 370) and updates the ticket information file 16 (Step 380)."
Col. 15, ll. 30-37. The remainder of the passage follows.
FIG. 9 shows a configuration example of the ticket information data 610
registered in the ticket information file 16.
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