Appeal No. 2006-1704
Application No. 10/640,544
manufacturing products according to specific recipes, and Saucier
fails to disclose the claimed “at least one material class that
describes one or more components of a recipe” and that “the at
least one material class is resolved to determine the actual
materials employed to manufacture the recipe.” Appellant
observes that the recipes disclosed in Saucier identify the
actual ingredients necessary to produce a unique and specific
product. Appellant also asserts that the materials A, B, C, D
and E for Product C in Saucier are merely labels for known
specific ingredients and are not classes or members of a class to
be resolved to manufacture the recipe [brief, pages 4-7].
The examiner responds that the claimed at least one material
class is met by the General Recipe Editor and Ingredients A, B,
C, D and E of Saucier. The examiner asserts that the claimed at
least one material class can be read as any material or
ingredients such as materials A-E in Saucier that are part of a
recipe. The examiner notes that material C can be selected in
Saucier and the corresponding actual ingredients for material C
are displayed which meets the resolving limitation of claim 1
[answer, pages 9-10].
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