Appeal No. 2006-1346 Παγε 2
Application No. 09/845,542
The appellants’ invention relates to a method of displaying a shopping summary
to a shopper who accesses an electronic commerce website (specification, p. 1). A
copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants’ brief.
The Prior Art
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Sherr et al. (Sherr) 2002/0154157 Oct. 24, 2002
(filed Apr. 6, 2001)
The Rejection
Claims 1 to 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Sherr in view of Official Notice.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the answer
(mailed December 2, 2005) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the
rejections, and to the brief (filed April 21, 2005) and reply brief (filed September 7, 2005)
for the appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the appellants’ specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
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