Appeal No. 2004-0326 Page 6
Application No. 09/651,019
shown in Figures 2 and 3, the EPL display includes two pieces of cost information at a
time in each currency, unit cost and total cost.
In our view, it would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a
person of ordinary skill in the art to have combined the teachings of Goodwin '395 and
Goodwin '913 so as to arrive at an EPL that displays both two pieces of cost information
at a time in each currency (unit cost and total cost) and messages based upon different
application priorities assigned to the application programs. However, this does not
arrive at the claimed invention since such an EPL would always display the item's unit
price and the system would never determine whether the EPL is to display the item's
unit price or an alternate message based on the alternate data for the item as set forth
in the claims under appeal.1
Since the teachings of Goodwin '395 and Goodwin '913 are not suggestive of the
claimed subject matter for the reasons set forth above, the decision of the examiner to
reject claims 1 to 17 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
1 In the rejection before us in this appeal (final rejection, pp. 2-4), the examiner incorrectly
ascertained that Goodwin '395 determined whether the EPL is to display the item's unit price or an
alternate message. Goodwin '395 contains no teaching that the EPL displays the item's unit price.
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