Appeal No. 2005-1722
Application 10/420,901
available through a catalog, but the system may be applied to
other entry devices, such as a multimedia kiosk, in which the
user and customer are the same person (col. 6, lines 29-36).
Thus, the customer may place an order over the network. Gifford
discloses a system for purchasing goods or information over the
Internet. Gifford discloses that "[t]he recent rapid growth of
information applications on international public packet-switched
computer networks such as the Internet suggest that public
computer networks have the potential to establish a new kind of
open marketplace for goods and services" (col. 1, lines 7-11) and
shows purchasing information on the Internet (e.g., Figs. 2-5 and
8-11 showing URLs). One of ordinary skill in the art would have
motivated to make the network in Cameron the Internet with the
screens displayed as Web pages in view of Gifford's disclosure of
purchasing of goods over the Internet. Both references are
directed to purchasing goods by computer over a network, which
provides the motivation for the combination. The examiner's
reasoning that it would have been obvious to combine because
Cameron teaches a multimedia device and Gifford teaches a
multimedia document is not persuasive because the multimedia
nature of the document says nothing about the network. Thus, we
conclude that the "web pages" limitation would have been obvious,
albeit for reasons different than those given by the examiner.
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