Appeal 2007-0518
Application 90/006,969
collecting electronically tax data from said tax data provider,
wherein said tax data is reported on an Internal Revenue Service
(“IRS”), state, local, or foreign tax form;
processing electronically said tax data collected electronically
from said tax data provider to obtain processed tax data; and
preparing electronically an electronic tax return using said
processed tax data.
4. Each of claims 31-40 were first presented during
reexamination.
5. Each one of claims 31-40 are independent claims.
6. Independent claims 31-40 are variations of and similar to the
original independent claims 1, 10 and 15, but differ with the added language:
(1) “wherein said tax data collected electronically is not
collected manually, and wherein said tax data collected electronically is not
manually entered onto said electronic tax return” (claims 31-33, 39, and 40);
(2) the tax data is collected “automatically” (34, 35, and 36)
(3) “automatic” tax data collecting (recited in the preamble)
(claim 37, 38, 39, and 40).
The 112, ¶ 1 and ¶ 2 rejections
7. The Examiner rejected claims 31-40 under 35 U.S.C. 112, ¶ 1,
as the Specification allegedly does not provide the intended metes and
bounds of:
1) the electronic collection of tax data wherein the tax data
collected electronically is not collected manually or manually entered
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