Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 43
was worried that they would move to daily reporting, but so far
IAR is sticking to the weekly reporting model. While the agents
may have been apprehensive about IAR moving to daily reporting,
we would not characterize their comments as a statement that the
change from weekly reporting was “bad.” For these same reasons,
we do not agree with appellant that Cogswell teaches away from
IATA.
We are not persuaded by appellant's assertion (reply brief,
page 6) that "the IATA article does not say a change to daily
reporting is imminent." The issue is not whether a change to
daily reporting was imminent, but rather whether an artisan would
have considered a move to daily or next day reporting to have
been obvious, irrespective of when it was to be implemented.
Nor are we persuaded by appellant's assertion (reply brief,
page 7) that the examiner is inappropriately picking and choosing
interesting snippets from IATA to support the rejection. From
our analysis, supra, we find that considering IATA as a whole,
the reference suggests the obviousness of moving to daily or next
day reporting. With regard to appellant's assertion (reply
brief, page 9) that Brice is not relevant to daily ticket
reporting, we agree with appellant that Brice does not appear to
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