Appeal No. 2004-0831
Application 09/650,176
As noted on page 1 of the specification, appellants’
invention relates to certification of users for electronic
commerce, and more particularly, to a secure user certification
system and method for electronic commerce that provides an
accounting system for services provided. Independent claim 35,
directed to a method for generating an electronic certificate, is
representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of that
claim can be found in Appendix A of appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Fischer ‘200 5,005,200 Apr. 2, 1991
Windel et al. (Windel) 5,680,463 Oct. 21, 1997
Claim 35 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Windel in view of Fischer ‘200.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejection,
we refer to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 13, mailed June 3,
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