Appeal No. 09/536,531
Application 2005-0494
detail the examiner might have applied an additional reference,
such as Goldhaber et al., U.S. Patent 5,794,210 (copy attached),
which shows that users can earn digital cash based on consumer
interaction (e.g., cols. 9-11), where "the compensation (e.g.,
direct cash payment) represented by a CyberCoin has generic
usefulness" (col. 11, lines 25-27).
For the reasons stated above, the rejection of claims 1-22
is sustained.
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