Appeal 2007-1715 Page 8
Application 10/033,224
2. Claims are given the broadest reasonable construction consistent with the
specification. In re Morris, 127 F.3d 1048, 44 USPQ2d 1023 (Fed. Cir. 1997).
3. “Many of appellant's arguments fail from the outset because, as the solicitor
has pointed out, they are not based on limitations appearing in the claims.” In re
Self, 671 F.2d 1344, 1348, 213 USPQ 1, 5 (CCPA 1982).
D. Analysis
We have carefully considered the record and find that one of ordinary skill
in the art with Nicholls and Godin in hand would have been led to modify the
Nicholls logistics system application to retrieve the weight of a corresponding
article/packing/container from a database, return that weight to the application, and
display the cost.
Nicholls discloses a database which receives as an input a package’s weight
as well as information about shipping costs. FF 3.
Furthermore Nicholls discloses a weigh scale which one of ordinary skill in
the art would understand has, as its objective, to weigh a package prior to shipping
it. Since it is generally well known that there is a cost associated with shipping a
package and that a package’s weight is a factor in the shipping cost, one of
ordinary skill in the art reading Nicholls would foresee the logistics system
disclosed therein providing a shipping cost based on the weight of the package
stored in the database.
Godin discloses a system involving an application retrieving data from a
database and displaying results on a website; weight being one of the data and
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