Appeal No. 2005-2439
Application No. 09/754,378
providing at least incentive redemption data to at least one
incentive distributor or incentive issuer to enable the at least
one incentive distributor or incentive issuer to use at least the
incentive redemption data for market analysis to create at least
one subsequent targeted incentive targeted based on targeting
criteria; and
making the at least one subsequent incentive available to a
user if the user satisfies the targeting criteria.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Von Kohorn 5,227,874 July 13, 1993
Saigh et al. (Saigh) 5,734,823 Mar. 31, 1998
Claims 76-112 stand provisionally rejected under the
judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting
over claims 63-74 of copending application Serial No. 09/321,597.
Claims 76-81 and 83-89 also stand rejected under the judicially
created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting over claims
1-8 of U. S. Patent No. 6,321,208. Claims 82 and 91 also stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as containing
subject matter that was not described in the specification in
such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant
art that the inventors, at the time the application was filed,
had possession of the claimed invention. Finally, claims 76-112
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
over the teachings of Von Kohorn in view of Saigh.
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