Appeal No. 2006-3062 Application No. 09/861,153 retrieving a corresponding address format by looking up a portion of said parsed address in an index table, the corresponding address format defining required placement of address elements within a shipping address; and generating a formatted shipping address by converting said parsed address into said corresponding address format. The references relied on by the Examiner as evidence of unpatentability are: Ramanathan US 2002/0083371 A1 June 27, 2002 (filed Dec. 27, 2000) Ulvr US 6,415,983 July 9, 2002 (filed Feb. 26, 1999) Yu US 2002/0153409 A1 Oct. 24, 2002 (filed Feb. 16, 2001) Harman US 6,658,430 Dec. 2, 2003 (filed Dec. 23, 1999) Address Control & ZipData-US, Hallogram Publishing, http://hallogram.com/addresscomponents/, 2000, pages 1-3. Claims 1, 2, 9 through 13, 20 through 25, 28, 29 and 36 through 38 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Yu in view of Harman. Claims 4 through 8, 15 through 19 and 31 through 35 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Yu in view of Harman and the Hallogram publication. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
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