Appeal No. 2006-1123
Application No. 09/766,934
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to automated production of sales invoices
individually customized according to preferences of a client. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced
below.
1. A method for providing particularized billing services, the method
comprising the steps of:
selecting a client for whom a bill is to be produced, and performing the
following operations within a local, expanded, or global computing environment;
extracting a list of software objects from a library of objects, each object
being operative to generate a predefined bill format with specific fields for the
selected client;
invoking at least one of the software objects to collect data pertinent to the
client and to the specific fields in the bill format; and
producing the bill having the defined bill format, with the data collected for
the selected client in the appropriate fields.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims is are:
Ensel et al. (Ensel) 6,493,685 Dec. 10, 2002
Mitra et al. (Mitra) US 2001/0014878 Aug. 16, 2001
Logan et al. (Logan) US 2001/0009002 Jul. 19, 2001
Siemens EP 590332 Apr. 6, 1994
(European Patent Document)
Claim 12 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as being
unpatentable for lacking enablement.
Claims 1-4 and 16-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
unpatentable as anticipated under Ensel.
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