Appeal 2006-2157
Application 09/752,204
1 agents, Meltzer for its description of a trusted agent to manage specific contract
2 terms between trading partners, Fox for describing a trusted credential authority for
3 administering contracts, and Haddad and Johnson each for examples of electronic
4 commodity exchange.
5 ISSUES
6 The issues pertinent to this appeal are
7 • Whether the art applied describes or would have fairly suggested, to one of
8 ordinary skill in the art, utilizing, by a buyer entity and a seller entity, an
9 automated public business trading hub in the public exchange of one or more
10 commodities, wherein the buyer entity, the seller entity, and the public
11 business trading hub are each separate and independently owned.
12 • Whether the art applied describes or would have fairly suggested, to one of
13 ordinary skill in the art, performing via an automated trusted agent one or
14 more private business functions associated with the public exchange of the
15 one or more commodities between the buyer entity and the seller entity
16 using the public business trading hub, wherein the one or more private
17 business functions include managing in private at least one of:
18 o (i) one or more pricing terms associated with the public exchange;
19 o (ii) one or more contract terms associated with the public exchange;
20 o (iii) one or more business terms associated with supply and demand of
21 commodities associated with the public exchange; and
22 o (iv) one or more product schedules associated with the public
23 exchange,
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