Appeal No. 2005-0074
Application No. 09/739,080
Provost, the examiner further finds that Knowlton discloses a web
browser and HTML element, as well the use of a web page
containing links to information (id.). From these findings, the
examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in this art at the time of appellants’ invention
to use web pages containing links to allow wide-based and
disparate customers the opportunity to place orders from remote
locations, using the common HTML language, as taught by Knowlton,
in the system of OrdaCard (id.). The examiner also concludes
that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in this
art at the time of appellants’ invention to use the web browser
to display web pages containing links, using the HTML language,
as taught by Knowlton, to allow wide-based and disparate
customers to place orders from remote locations in the system of
Provost (Answer, page 7). We agree.
With regard to the rejection of claim 33, appellants argue
that there is no explanation how the combination of OrdaCard and
Knowlton (or Provost and Knowlton) overcomes the deficiencies of
OrdaCard alone (or Provost alone)(Brief, page 7). Additionally,
appellants argue that neither OrdaCard nor Knowlton discloses a
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