Appeal No. 2006-1179 Παγε 13
Application No. 10/242,532
From the disclosure that the orders are placed in buy/sell
databases, we find that a sell order, which includes the price
and quantity of the product to be sold, meets the claimed
receiving an order for a product. Although claim 41 recites
properties of the PDIs and the orders which are distinct from
each other, we find that the orders entered by traders as SDPs
can be both orders and SDPs as advanced by the examiner.
From the disclosure of having sell orders in the system waiting
for a buy order to trigger a crossing, and the disclosure that
“[i]f all feasible crosses have been completed, then the process
is temporarily suspended until the next order is entered” (col.
9, lines 41-43) we find that buy orders can be in the buy
database waiting for a sell order to be entered, which will
restart the computational crossing. In addition, from the
disclosure of the price being either an absolute price or a
relative price, e.g., pegged to the bid/ask midpoint or to the
average price of the last match of that security (or stock) (col.
7, lines 6-9) we find that the buy order of Lupien meets the
claimed PDI. Thus, we find that the SDPs, which represent
orders, can represent both orders and PDIs. In addition, we find
that a SDP for a sell order represents an order as set forth in
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