Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 37
reference to aspects of the claimed invention being discussed,
but does not state what these aspects were. It is not disclosed
if the implemented reporting by the next day or next 48 hours
after the day of the ticket issuance was discussed. The Redacted
Proposed New Business Methodology does not disclose, nor does the
Declaration explain, how the airlines should be "inhibiting an
agency's ability to void an airline ticket," as recited on page 2
of Section 2 of the Proposed New Business Method. Moreover, the
Declaration is silent as to how the airline representatives
received the information provide by Mr. Goldstein. For example,
were they astonished to find out how much money they were losing?
Did they express an indication that they weren't being told
anything they didn't already know? etc. We don't know the answer
to any of these questions because this information has not been
provided to us in the Declaration, even though appellant is in a
position to know the answers to these questions because he was
present at all of the meetings. This case must be decided on the
evidence of record.
Based on our analysis, supra, we find that the moving from a
weekly voiding system to a reduced time for voiding the issuance
of tickets, resulted from ongoing industry automation of IAR,
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