Appeal 2007-1305
Application 09/725,394
1 The claimed forms read on any formatted carrier of data, not just assignment
2 forms.
3 Fucarile describes retrieving content after requesting that content (FF16).
4 Fucarile’s system embeds licensing forms within the content (FF13), so Fucarile
5 queries for the license form along with the content. Both the content and the
6 license are returned to the user (FF16), thus both are retrieved from Fucarile’s
7 database server.
8 A request for information as part of Fucarile’s commercial transaction (FF14)
9 is a request to transfer the data, and is thus a transfer request. Fucarile reassembles
10 the license and data within the plug-in program after it has been transmitted from
11 the database server, thus combining the license form and content.
12 As a result of the above operations, Fucarile’s software queries the database of
13 information records to retrieve an information record corresponding to a transfer
14 request, queries the database of recordation forms to retrieve a recordation form
15 corresponding to the transfer request, and combines the retrieved information
16 record with the retrieved recordation form to generate a transfer document (FF17).
17 As to claim requirement that the nature of the content, i.e., the transfer request,
18 is indicative of a transfer of intellectual property rights, this claim limitation relates
19 the content of the form, e.g., it is textual material, bearing no functional
20 relationship to its underlying media, or the remainder of the claimed subject
21 matter, and nonfunctional descriptive material cannot render nonobvious an
22 invention that would have otherwise been obvious. Further, we note that
23 Schneider’s content includes data indicative of a transfer of rights to the property
24 in any event (FF11). Thus, Schneider shows software receiving a transfer request
25 indicative of a transfer of rights to the property.
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