Appeal No. 2006-2267
Application No. 09/916,537
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us, and we will reverse the
obviousness rejections of claims 1 through 3, 5, 7 through 15 and 17 through 20.
In Kennedy, a prepopulated data structure 206 is stored for future use in automatically
populating a form with values stored in the data structure (Figure 2; Abstract; column 1, lines 9
through 12; column 6, lines 19 through 67).
The examiner acknowledges (answer, page 4) that Kennedy does not teach the claim 1
steps of “reading a user data card to determine a network location at which user information to
be added to a form is stored,” “retrieving the user information from the network location,” and
“printing a hard copy form that contains at least a portion of the user information.” According to
the examiner (answer, page 4), Goheen teaches the steps missing in Kennedy.
Goheen describes an electronic card that replaces a paper ticket for gaining access to a
carrier (e.g., an airline) (Figures 2A and 2B; Abstract). The encoded information on the card is
scanned by ATM-type machines at the airport (column 2, lines 51 through 66).
The examiner contends (answer, page 4) that Goheen swipes the card at the ATM-type
machine and “retrieves passenger information from the central database across a network and
prints out the passenger travel information at the mobile/ATM location.”
The examiner turned to Berger for “motivation to combine the card identification system
to access more information on a user via a mobile unit (Berger, col. 4, line 50) and completing
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