Appeal 2006-2635
Application 09/935,287
telephone. Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as
follows:
1. A computer-implemented method for listing an independent
seller's good for sale using a CPU, a memory operatively connected to the
CPU and a program stored in the memory and executable by the CPU for
presenting the good for sale on a website, the method comprising:
receiving from a seller information identifying a good, the information
comprising a series of tones generated by depression of keys of a telephone;
and
presenting the good for sale on a website.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the Examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims is:
Lalonde 5,283,731 Feb. 01, 1994
Claims 1 through 13 and 21 through 32 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Lalonde.
We refer to the Examiner's Answer (mailed April 6, 2006) for the
Examiner's complete reasoning and to Appellants' Brief (filed January 13,
2006) and Reply Brief (filed June 8, 2006) for Appellants' responsive
arguments.
SUMMARY OF DECISION
As a consequence of our review, we will affirm-in-part the
obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 13 and 21 through 32.
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