Appeal 2007-1695
Application 10/418,835
will sustain the Examiner’s rejection of claim 6 and associated dependent
claims 8-10 as being directed to non statutory subject matter under 35 U.S.C.
§ 101.
Claims 1-4
We consider next the Examiner’s rejection of claims 1-4 as being
unpatentable over the teachings of Huemoeller. Since Appellants’
arguments with respect to this rejection have treated these claims as a single
group which stand or fall together, we will select independent claim 1 as the
representative claim for this rejection. See 37 C.F.R.
§ 41.37(c)(1)(vii)(2004).
Appellants argue, inter alia, that Huemoeller does not teach or suggest
a system that performs the step of constructing a list of relevant people from
sales information and purchase information (Br. 14).
The Examiner disagrees. The Examiner points out that Huemoller
teaches a display produced when the user activates the “Contacts” tab, T4
(see Huemoeller, Fig. 10, col. 8, ll. 8-9). The Examiner notes the display
comprises a window (“ABI”) which comprises a listing of an “address book”
(see Huemoeller, col. 8, ll. 9-11). The Examiner argues that since typical
address books comprise relevant contacts, it is reasonable to interpret
Huemoeller’s address book of contacts as a list of people who are relevant.
The Examiner points out that Huemoller teaches various embodiments
including ticket information, as well as travel planning comprising airline
steps of gathering data. Therefore, these steps of obtaining information do
not transform data (claim 6).
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