Appeal 2007-0518
Application 90/006,969
onto said electronic tax return (as recited in claims 31-33, 39 and 40)
(Final Rejection 8 and Answer 5);
2) the automatic and electronic collection of tax data (as recited
in claims 34-38)
3) the tax data collected is reported on an internal revenue
service, state, local or foreign tax form as recited in claims 33 and 36.
8. With respect to the last item, the Examiner poses several
hypothetical questions regarding the limitation such as 1) do the claims
require that the tax data expressly be reported and, if so, to whom? 2) if the
scope of the claims necessitates an active reporting of the tax data on one of
the recited forms, what is the extent of the data reported? 3) does the
invention report the actual image data or an OCR version of the contents of
an entire IRS tax form? (Final Rejection 6-9 and Answer 3-6).
9. The Examiner also argues that since the Specification describes
that the invention may be implemented using existing software, such as
TurboTax®, that the demarcation between one off-the-shelf software
program being integrated into another piece of software is not made clear by
the Specification (Final Rejection 7-8 and Answer 8 and 27).
10. Simplification’s Specification states:
Hence, with the electronic collection of tax data as in step 12,
the invention eliminates the current requirement that a taxpayer
manually collect the tax data, eliminates the current requirement that a
taxpayer manually enter such tax data onto a tax return or into a
computer, and eliminates the need for all, or virtually all, intermediate
hard copies of tax data, thereby saving paper, time, and cost.
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