Appeal Number: 2006-1574
Application Number: 09/903,177
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a method for selling fuel to a vehicle. An understanding
of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A method for selling fuel to a vehicle, wherein the method comprises the steps
of:
storing vehicle specific data in the vehicle;
transmitting said data from the vehicle to a fuel pump computer; and
determining, at least partially, by said fuel pump computer, a per unit price of the
fuel sold to said vehicle, using said data.
PRIOR ART
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:
Walkey 4,469,149 September 4, 1984
Marion US2002/0046117 A1 April 18, 2002 (February 17, 1998)
Pollock 5,923,572 July 13, 1999
Minnesota Representative Proposes Mileage Tax to Replace Gas Tax, Tax News Update, Vol.
13, No. 1, January 4, 2000 (Minnesota)1
Plotkin, Technologies and Policies for Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the U.S.
Automobile and Light Truck Fleet, Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National
Laboratory, January 2000 (Plotkin)
Department for Transport, Driving the Agenda: The First Report of the Cleaner Vehicles Task
Force, December 1, 2000 (Task Force)2
Transportation Issues, The 2001 Environmental Handbook for the Oregon Legislature, Chapter
12, Oregon Conservation Network, January 29, 2001 (Transportation Issues)3
1 Found at http://www.sustainableeconomy.org/tnu/vol.13/13.1.html
2 Found at http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_roads/documents/page/dft_roads_506886-02.hcsp
3 Found at http://www.olcv.org/handbook/shap12.html
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