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             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.                                                                             




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