Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 21
but that, according to Tom Murphy, IATA Managing Director-
Distribution Services, "KPMG said that if you shrink it down to
six, you can produce substantial economies of scale and reduce
operating costs to airlines." Thus, we find from IATA that
moving to daily settling of accounts by agents can come as a
result of consolidation of IATA's BSP functions. From the
airlines alleging that ARC would soon be enhanced to move the
world to daily reporting, we find that artisans were aware of
having daily reporting and were aware that daily reporting could
be implemented at any time. Although IATA does not disclose any
implementation of daily reporting, it is clear that daily
reporting, instead of the current weekly reporting, was known to
artisans. Thus, although IATA does not disclose daily reporting
being implemented at the time of the article, we find that an
artisan would have considered daily reporting to have been
obvious. In addition, from the disclosure of ARC enhancing IAR,
we find that an artisan would have been motivated to enhance the
IAR of Section 10 of IAH.
Turning to Cogswell, we make the following findings of fact:
"Streamlining. IAR is designed to simplify the
tedious once-a-week *ARC* reporting process for
agents."
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