Appeal 2007-2167
Application 09/991,752
The Examiner rejected claims 1-20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) based
upon the teachings of Gupta ‘079 and Gupta ‘258.
ISSUE
The issue is whether Appellant has shown that the Examiner erred in
rejecting the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Appellant asserts that the
disclosure of Gupta “079 has nothing to do with “determining a user’s
identity” by searching and accessing a second location or “retrieving
additional (or any) user information” from the second location (Br. 6).
Appellant further argues that the use of a “wrapper” in Gupta ‘258 is not
related to the “identity of a user” or its determination (Br. 7). Based on such
assertions, Appellant argues that the combination of the references would
not teach or suggest access to the customer data from the vendor’s web site
nor determining the identity of a user (Br. 7-8). Therefore, the issue turns on
whether the combination of the applied references teaches the claimed
subject matter including determining “the identity of a user” from the
information entered at a first or a second location and “retrieving additional
information” based on the determined identity.
FINDINGS OF FACT
The following findings of fact (FF) are relevant to the issue involved
in the appeal and are believed to be supported by a preponderance of the
evidence.
1. Gupta ‘079 provides for a method of automatically filling in on-
line forms presented by web pages in an internet transactional environment
(Abstract), wherein a user may shop for items from different vendors' Web
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