Appeal 2007-1305
Application 09/725,394
1 03. The Specification does not provide a lexicographic definition for
2 generate, record, recordation, or form.
3 04. The ordinary and usual meaning of generate is to bring in to being1.
4 05. The ordinary and usual meaning of a record, as a noun, is an account, as
5 of information, set down, esp. in writing as a way of preserving
6 knowledge1.
7 06. The ordinary and usual meaning of a recordation is the process of
8 recording. Record, as a verb, means to set down for preservation in
9 writing or other permanent form1. Thus, recordation is the process of
10 setting down for preservation in writing or other permanent form.
11 07. Therefore, the ordinary and usual meaning of a recordation form is a
12 form for recordation, i.e., it is an account, as of information, set down, in
13 writing or other permanent form, as a way of preserving knowledge.
14 Schneider
15 08. Schneider describes a system that updates data files, particularly patent
16 data files, for changes in status such as newly issued and prematurely
17 expired patents (Schneider, col. 4, ll. 54-61).
18 09. As found by the Examiner, Schneider shows an Internet server; a
19 communications link between said Internet server and the Internet; and
20 at least one database containing a plurality of information records
21 accessible by the Internet server, where each information record includes
22 an intellectual property identification number (Schneider, Fig. 8: 302 &
1 Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary, 1994
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