Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 36
courtesy of voiding airline tickets issued in a given week, since
the creation of ARC in 1984, we find that the voiding of issued
tickets by travel agencies was a problem that existed in the art
for a very long time. From the disclosure in the November 15,
2002 article that ARC has been experiencing increased fraud with
respect to this matter, we find that the airline industries were
aware, at least to some extent, of the problem with the voiding
system. From the disclosures of IATA that ARC would soon enhance
IAR to move the world to daily reporting, and the disclosure of
Cogswell that some members in the industry were nervous or
worried about when ARC would start requiring daily reporting, we
find that artisans were aware of daily reporting being put into
place. From this, we find that an artisan would have considered
daily reporting to have been obvious, even though it had not been
implemented by ARC.
Turning back to the second Declaration by appellant, Mr.
Goldstein, we note that the Declaration does not provide the
exact dates of the meetings. Nor does the Declaration state who
attended the meetings on behalf of the ARC airlines. Nor does
the Declaration disclose what specifically was disclosed to the
airlines during the meeting. The Declaration makes broad
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