Appeal No. 2004-1827 Page 2
Application No. 09/467,396
BACKGROUND
Appellant's invention relates to web design of software for
keep-alive boards. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced
as follows:
1. A method for electronically providing customized
software to a customer, comprising the steps of:
receiving a customer specification through a web interface;
automatically creating customer compatible software that
meets the customer specification; and
electronically providing the customer compatible software to
the customer, wherein the customer compatible software is a
customer compatible executable that is compiled from pre-existing
source code that includes inserted customer specific messages
provided by the customer in the customer specification.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Kohl 6,163,878 Dec. 19, 2000
(filed Mar. 21, 1998)
Claims 1-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Kohl.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellant regarding the above-noted rejection,
we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 14, mailed
March 4, 2004) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support
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