Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 29
Declaration and Exhibits have been considered for the information
provided, it is given little weight as to the issue of when
artisans were aware of the idea of going from weekly reporting to
a shorter reporting period.
We turn next to the Declaration under 37 CFR § 1.132 of Mr.
William Goldstein, filed October 16, 2003. The Declaration of
Mr. Goldstein, is a summary of an interview that took place with
the examiner on June 11, 2003. It is stated that in the
interview, the Brice patent '981 was discussed by Mr. Goldstein
as being a real-time back-end accounting system. Mr. Goldstein
explained to the examiner that the Brice patent had no relevance
as the reporting it described involved reporting of accounting
data/ticket sales to the accounting system, not of the issuance
of tickets. When Travelocity issues tickets, real-time,
electronically, it creates a record in the GDS, that is
maintained in the GDS until the GDS is interfaced with the
accounting system. Issuance of the ticket, however, is not
reported to the airline or ARC in real-time, but rather as would
any other travel agent. The Declaration, on page 2, additionally
states “I further explained that one of the examples I described
in the application involved a system that performs batch
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