Appeal 2007-0964
Application 09/984,929
INVENTION
The invention is directed to an electronic document distribution system in
which it is possible to generate a distribution list at substantially the same time as
creating or sending an electronic document. See page 2 of Appellant’s
Specification. Claim 1 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
1. A method of operating an electronic document distribution
system arranged to distribute documents over a network including the steps
of:
composing an electronic document;
addressing said document with a plurality of recipient addresses by at
least one of adding a recipient address or selecting a recipient identifier;
in response to a user input, automatically creating a distribution list
corresponding to said plurality of recipient addresses; and,
distributing said electronic document after creating the distribution
list.
REFERENCE
The reference relied upon by the Examiner is:
Terada US 2002/0026480 A1 Feb. 28, 2002
(filed Jan. 19, 2001)
REJECTIONS AT ISSUE
Claims 22 through 291, and 34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as being
directed to non-statutory subject matter. The Examiner’s rejection is set forth on
page 3 of the Answer. Claims 1 through 15, 17 through 29, and 31 through 36
1 We note that the statement of the rejection includes claim 30, however claim 30
has been canceled.
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