Appeal No. 2006-1229
Application No. 09/800,690
in response to said notifying said user that said back order request
has been satisfied, receiving a delivery request from said user system to
deliver said product.
PRIOR ART
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:
Alnwick 2002/0007318 Jan. 17, 2002
(filed Dec. 11, 2000)
Ahluwalia 6,728,685 Apr. 27, 2004
(filed Apr. 5, 2000)
Furphy et al. (Furphy) 2002/0107794 Aug. 8, 2002
(filed Feb. 5, 2001)
Timothy Pritchard, Ford and Toyota Test the Sale of Cars On-Line in Canada, New York
Times, 6/29/2000 (Pritchard).
REJECTIONS
Claims 1 and 3 to 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
as obvious over Alnwick in view of Ahluwalia, Furphy and Pritchard.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (mailed 7/14/2005) for the reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
appellants’ brief (filed 5/10/2005) for the arguments thereagainst.
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