Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 10
with daily cash sweeps against agent bank accounts; so-called
‘interactive reporting’ functions would become involuntary and
mandatory with all ticketing activity reported as it occurs; and
that IAR would facilitate airlines amending the vast majority of
ticketing time limits to instant or 24-hour ticketing.’”
The examiner asserts (id.) that it would have been obvious
"to modify the reporting schedule for the benefit of
consolidating its billing and settlement plan functions."
Although the examiner does not specifically refer to Cogswell in
the rejection of the independent claims, the examiner adds, in
the remarks, (answer, page 6) that “[t]he articles of Cogswell
and IATA, demonstrate that the concept of daily reporting was
known before applicant’s invention, it was, in fact feared by
agents (see Cogswell, pg 2 paragraph 14), and their trade group,
U.S Travel Agent Registry (see IATA, Bruce Bishins concern ‘that
ARC would soon ‘enhance’ IAR,’ paragraph 5).” The examiner
additionally adds (answer, pages 6 and 7) that:
“IAH, which is the user’s manual for the Interactive
Agent Reporting (IAR) system, discloses issuing
tickets, reporting issuance of tickets and imposing a
fee. Even without Brice et al, IATA teaches U.S Travel
Agent Registry’s president, Bruce Bishins concern ‘that
ARC would soon ‘enhance’ IAR to move the world to
daily... interactive reporting,’ paragraph 5, that
alone is suggestion to shorten the reporting period.
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