Appeal No. 2004-2110
Application No. 09/910,654
storage of agent coupon data. Appellant also notes that the
rejection is not based on a single document as required, but
instead, is based on a plurality of separate documents by ARC and
the Travel Weekly News (brief, pages 9-15).
The examiner responds that ARC disclosed that agents “can
now print agent coupon[s] on non-accountable stock or capture the
coupon data on an optical media” (answer, page 5, emphasis added
by examiner). The examiner finds that the disclosure of
capturing coupon data indicates that the data is stored
electronically. The examiner also notes that it would have been
obvious to store the data as an image file or a text file. The
examiner notes that it was well known that image data can be
stored in electronic form for reconstruction of the image
(answer, pages 6-11).
Appellant responds that when all of the disclosures of
ARC are considered as a whole, it is clear that ARC did not
contemplate the electronic storage of agent coupon data (reply
brief, pages 2-5, 7-11).
We will not sustain the examiner’s rejection of the
claims on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 102(f). We agree with
appellant that ARC, when considered in its entirety, only
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