Appeal No. 2004-0786
Application No. 08/935,116 Page 8
Appellants assert (brief, page 11) that “Creekmore does not
disclose a system for entering unique customer identification
codes from customer identification presented at the point-of-sale
and for accumulating transaction data at the point-of-sale, as
claimed.” It is argued that because the terminal 13 of Creekmore
is located near the checkout lanes of a grocery store, it is not
located at the point of sale. It is further argued (brief, page
14) that the data entry of columns 5 and 6 of Creekmore refers to
entering customer identification codes, and does not relate to
the entry of transaction data as recited in claim 8.
From our review of Creekmore's disclosure, we find that
Creekmore discloses (col. 5, lines 18-28) that “the input
terminal 13 . . . may be positioned at any convenient point-of-
use location such as a location near the checkout lanes of a
grocery store. When a customer desires to undertake a particular
checking function, such as paying presently-unknown amount for
the purchase of groceries, he inserts his identification card 25
into a slot 26 provided on the side 27 of the input terminal.
The customer next places a blank check 28 face-down on the check
tray 29, and then slides the check tray into the opening provided
in the front face 30 of the input terminal.” Creekmore further
discloses (col. 5, lines 57 and 58) that in this example, it is
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