Appeal 2007-1240
Application 09/733,596
ISSUES
There are two principal issues in the appeal before us.
The first issue is whether Appellant has shown that the Examiner
failed to establish a prima facie case of obviousness, because no reference of
record teaches validating a data file at a secondary server and
communicating validation results to a user prior to release of the data file to
a primary server.
The second issue is whether Appellant has shown that the Examiner
failed to establish a prima facie case of obviousness, because no reference of
record teaches a primary network and a plurality of secondary networks,
wherein data files are validated at a secondary server associated with a
secondary network prior to release of the data file to a primary server
associated with the primary network.
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. Appellant invented a system and process of managing “deliverable”
data files of an organization or company distributed across diverse
geographical areas.
2. Appellant’s system includes a primary server on a primary network,
a database in communication with the primary server, and a number of
secondary networks, which may be located in different countries and
continents (Specification 3: 30).
except as will be noted in this opinion. In the absence of a separate
argument with respect to those claims, they stand or fall with the
representative independent claim. See In re Young, 927 F.2d 588, 590, 18
USPQ2d 1089, 1091 (Fed. Cir. 1991). See also 37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii).
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