Appeal No. 2004-0344
Application No. 09/759,016
said to facilitate the procurement process for technical services
contractors.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A Skills Matching Application (SMA) which allows a user
to communicate requirements to technical service suppliers in a
way that significantly reduces the process time and improves the
accuracy of requests sent to suppliers comprising:
means for accessing the SMA from a Requisition/Catalog
(REQ/CAT) application;
means for prompting a user through a series of screens to
enter a Statement of Work (SOW) and complete a skills detail
checklist for each of the technical skills requested;
means for submitting the request to contracted suppliers by
e-mail notification notifying the supplier that a new request has
been entered into the SMA application for them to review and
submit a candidate against;
means for receiving from a supplier a candidate or
candidates with appended resumes as appropriate; and
means for displaying for the user the supplier responses and
associated resumes.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Puram et al. (Puram) 6,289,340 Sep. 11, 2001
(filed Aug. 3, 1999)
Claims 1-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as lacking
utility, and under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as not being
enabled because of the lack of utility.
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