Appeal No. 2005-1936
Application No. 09/864,198
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a scrap reduction procedure.
Representative claim 1 reads as follows:
1. A scrap reduction procedure comprising:
providing a repository for collecting information on
materials, sizes and thicknesses available by first fabrication
parties;
providing a repository for collecting information on
materials, sizes and thickness needs of second user parties;
providing a means for communicating said materials, sizes,
and thicknesses available to said second user parties and said
materials, sizes, and thicknesses needed to said first
fabrication parties to each other;
providing a means for receiving responses to said materials,
sizes, thicknesses available from said first fabrication parties
and said materials, sizes, thicknesses needed by said second user
parties;
communicating said responses to an appropriate said first
party or said second party.
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 through 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over U.S. Patent Application Publication
2001/0049634 to Stewart in view of Official Notice by the
examiner that it was old and well known in the art at the time of
the invention that selling products that are available and
saleable is a prudent method of reducing scrap.
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