Appeal No. 2003-2167 Page 3
Application No. 09/903,500
support of the rejections, and to the brief (Paper No. 11, filed January 30, 2003) and
reply brief (Paper No. 14, filed May 22, 2003) for the appellant's arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the appellant's specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellant and the examiner. As a consequence
of our review, we make the determinations which follow.
In the Grouping of Claims section of the brief (p. 4), the appellant stated that
Claims 12 and 14 to 36 stand and fall together. We have selected claim 18 as the
representative claim from that grouping of claims.
Claim 18 reads as follows:
A method for delivering billing statements from a biller to a recipient by
means of a printed transmission or electronic transmission, comprising the steps
of:
generate billing information for at least one recipient from a biller's
computer;
prescribing delivery preferences for said billing information;
associating said delivery preferences with said billing information to
determine if said billing information is to be transmitted via printed transmission
or electronic transmission;
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