Appeal No. 2007-0332
Application No. 10/316,312
before the invention by the applicant for patent or (2) a patent granted
on an application for patent by another filed in the United States
before the invention by the applicant for patent, except that an
international application filed under the treaty defined in section
351(a) shall have the effects for purposes of this subsection of an
application filed in the United States only if the international
application designated the United States and was published under
Article 21(2) of such treaty in the English language.
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by
Chipman (U.S. Patent 6,799,174).
Instant claim 1 Chipman U.S. Pat. 6,799,174
1. A method for enabling Chipman discloses a method
parametric searches on source data whereby a supplier 105 (col. 12, ll.
using a text search engine, the 19-20) has the capability to publish
method comprising: protocol-compliant pages (i.e.,
identified with a unique tag such as
the <UC> tag (col. 7, ll. 15-22) that
enable parametric searches (col. 5, l.
30, col. 9, ll. 50-62) that inherently
(i.e., necessarily) require text
searching to match a particular
parameter (e.g., “Price,” “Length,” or
“Width,” col. 7, ll. 20-22) that is
subsequently used to perform a
numeric (i.e., parametric)
comparison (col. 9, ll. 50-62).
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