Appeal No. 2003-2165 Page 16
Application No. 09/067,093
view of this passage, we are unpersuaded how transferring information to a jurisdiction
for criminal prosecution or humanitarian purposes evidences the desirability of attaching
a code to goods or services to indicate that a condition must be fulfilled for sale thereof;
adding the code to a database; when a particular good or service is presented for
purchase, automatically capturing the code previously attached to the particular good or
service; comparing the captured code against the contents of the database; and, if the
captured code matches a code in the database, automatically requesting fulfillment of
the specific condition.
Absent a teaching or suggestion of attaching a code to goods or services to
indicate that a condition must be fulfilled for sale thereof; adding the code to a
database; when a particular good or service is presented for purchase, automatically
capturing the code previously attached to the particular good or service; comparing the
captured code against the contents of the database; and, if the captured code matches
a code in the database, automatically requesting fulfillment of the specific condition, we
are unpersuaded of a prima facie case of obviousness. Therefore, we reverse the
obviousness rejection of claim 53 and of claims 54-64, which depend therefrom.
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