Appeal No. 2006-3062
Application No. 09/861,153
Appellant that Ramanathan is not concerned with international shipping addresses.
On the other hand, we agree with the Examiner that the teachings in Ramanathan
are applicable to a web site as in Yu (paragraphs 0046 and 0047) and a web site
system designer seeking the security protection of a firewall (paragraph 0003), and
a faster processing speed provided by the three different servers (i.e., web server,
applications server and a database server) in an E-business environment (Figures 4
and 5; paragraphs 0043 through 0048). The problems of web security and the use
of E-system servers in Ramanathan are the same problems confronted and solved
by the disclosed and claimed invention. A reference is still analogous prior art if it
is reasonably pertinent to the particular problem with which the inventor is
involved. In re Kahn, 441 F.3d 977, 987, 78 USPQ2d 1329, 1336 (Fed. Cir. 2006),
citing In re Oetiker, 977 F.2d 1443, 1447, 24 USPQ2d 1443, 1445-6 (Fed. Cir.
1992). Thus, the obviousness rejection of claims 26 and 27 is sustained because
the skilled artisan would have looked to the teachings of Ramanathan to solve the
same problems in the international shipping addresses teachings of Yu.
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