Appeal 2007-0014
Application 10/202,227
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-5 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Koski and Kiyoujima. The Examiner finds that Koski teaches
the claimed invention except for the step of modifying being done automatically.
The Examiner finds that Kiyoujima discloses automatically generating a new
electronic document in accordance with input from a user and concludes that it
would have been obvious to have incorporated automatic updating in Koski to
provide for automatic document generation.
DISCUSSION
The first issue involves steps (a), (b), and (c) of inputting features of an
electronic document to be created, searching a case base of documents for a
document substantially matching the inputted features, and automatically selecting
one of the substantially matching documents.
Appellant argues that Koski is directed to a case management system that
allows a user to find a similar experience or incident in a database to glean the
relevant solution or answer to the current problem, and is not directed to searching
out electronic documents based upon document features to gather a starting point
for generating a new document (Br. 5).
The Examiner responds that the cases in Koski "can relate, for example, to
help desk support, sales support, customer service, medical diagnosis, engineering
design, executive information systems, or the like" (col. 2, ll. 63-66) and "[t]hus,
the cases in Koski reference are considered as documents" (Answer 6).
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