Appeal 2006-2997
Application 09/881,911
rejection of claims 1, 2, 4 through 18, 20 through 35, which are all of the
claims pending in this application.
Appellants' invention relates to a method, in a network-based auction,
for pre-approving a bidder or buyer for a particular sale listing. Claim 1 is
illustrative of the claimed invention and reads as follows:
1. A method to pre-approve a bidder for network-based shopping, the
method including:
receiving an authorization communication, over a network, at a
network-based auction facility, the authorization
communication to authorize the bidder to bid on a particular
sale listing that is listed for sale by a seller; and
at the network-based auction facility, automatically recording the
bidder as authorized to bid on the particular sale listing
responsive to the authorization communication.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the Examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Walker US 6,240,396 B1 May 29, 2001
Stewart US 2001/0049634 A1 Dec. 06, 2001
(effectively filed Mar. 06, 2000)
Kumar US 2002/0042755 A1 Apr. 11, 2002
(effectively filed Oct. 05, 2000)
Friedland US 2002/0174060 A1 Nov. 21, 2002
(effectively filed Dec. 30, 1998)
Claims 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 13 through 18, and 20 through 35 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Stewart1.
1 The Examiner included claims 3 and 19 in this rejection (Answer 4), but
those claims have been cancelled.
2
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