Appeal No. 2004-1421
Application No. 09/471,674
and method for selecting alternative travel preparation messages
is present in Flake. The examiner's attempt to somehow analogize
the selection of different travel preparation messages of the
type required in appellants' claims 1 and 5 on appeal with the
travel arrangement "recap" mentioned in Flake column 11, lines
61-67, is wholly unavailing and attempts to compare entirely
different and unrelated aspects of a member's travel preparation
arrangements.
Like appellants, our review of the applied patents to Flake,
Robinson and Vance, leads us to conclude that the examiner has
attempted to reconstruct appellants' claimed subject matter using
a patchwork of unrelated bits and pieces of information from a
collection of patents having disparate goals or objectives
relating to travel planning, based upon impermissible hindsight
gleaned only from the present application and appellants' own
teachings.
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