Appeal No. 2004-1827 Page 8
Application No. 09/467,396
customer. We also agree with the examiner that Kohl discloses
the software to be a customer compatible executable, because Kohl
teaches that the HTML pages of application may contain Java
applets, and because Kohl teaches that it can deliver a client-
server application instead of a web application. We additionally
agree with the examiner that Kohl teaches that these executables
are compiled from pre-existing source code, because the source
code for these executables must exist before they can be
compiled. It is at this point, however, that we part company
with the examiner. Although we agree that Kohl would inherently
include pre-existing source code, we find no suggestion of
modifying the source code to include customer specific messages
from a customer specification. In addition, with respect to the
examiner's arguments (final rejection, page 12) that selection of
a display language would permit customers to insert messages, we
note that the selection of one language or another is merely the
selection of a source to be compiled and not the insertion of
“customer specific messages” into the source code. Accordingly,
we agree with appellant (brief, page 12) that “Kohl does not
teach or suggest electronically providing a customer compatible
executable that is compiled from pre-existing source code that
includes inserted customer specific messages provided by a
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