Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 40
respect to the obviousness of combining the teachings of Brice
with IAH.
With regard to appellant's assertions regarding IATA (brief,
pages 16 and 17) and Cogswell (brief, page 18) we make reference
to our findings, supra, with regard to why an artisan would have
been motivated to combine the teachings of IATA and Cogswell with
IAH and Brice. We add that we are not persuaded by appellant's
assertion that IATA teaches away from modification of IAH. The
reference discloses that IATA plans to consolidate its BSP
functions, which could lead to a mandate to settle accounts daily
if IATA chooses ARC and its IAR as its back-office supplier. The
fact that IATA could go to daily reporting shows that daily
reporting was known, even if it was not yet implemented. In
addition, the reference additionally discloses that even though
ARC says it has no plans to make all reporting daily, that the
airlines alleged that ARC would soon enhance IAR to move the
world to daily reporting. This also teaches and suggests that
daily reporting was known to artisans. In addition, we find that
the amount of reduction from weekly reporting to daily reporting,
next day reporting, etc. to have been obvious from the disclosure
of IATA of having all ticketing activity reported as it occurs.”
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