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` UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`12/098,154
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`04/04/2008
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`Richad Frankland
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`01/06/2011
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`COOLEY LLP
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`ATTN: Patent Group
`Suite 1 100
`777 - 6th Street, NW
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`UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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`ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.
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`CONF {MATION NO.
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`LUFK—001/01US
`309694-2002
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`1656
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`EXAMINER
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`APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ
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`ART UNIT
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`3694
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`MAIL DATE
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`Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.
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`The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication.
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`PTOL—90A (Rev. 04/07)
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`Notice of Abandonment
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`Application No.
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`App|icant(s)
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`KIRSTEN S. APPLE
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`FRANKLAND ET AL.
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`-- The MAILING DA TE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address--
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`This application is abandoned in view of:
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`1. IXI Applicant’s failure to timely file a proper reply to the Office letter mailed on 27AQril2010.
`(a) I] A reply was received on
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`(b) I] A proposed reply was received on
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`(A proper reply under 37 CFR 1.113 to a final rejection consists only of: (1) a timely filed amendment which places the
`application in condition for allowance; (2) a timely filed Notice of Appeal (with appeal fee); or (3) a timely filed Request for
`Continued Examination (FlCE) in compliance with 37 CFR 1.114).
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`but it does not constitute a proper reply, or a bona fide attempt at a proper reply, to the non-
`(c) I:I A reply was received on
`final rejection. See 37 CFR 1.85(a) and 1.111. (See explanation in box 7 below).
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`(d) IXI No reply has been received.
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`2. El Applicant’s failure to timely pay the required issue fee and publication fee, if applicable, within the statutory period of three months
`from the mailing date of the Notice of Allowance (PTOL—85).
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`(with a Certificate of Mailing or Transmission dated
`(a) El The issue fee and publication fee, if applicable, was received on
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`Allowance (PTOL—85).
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`(b) I:I The submitted fee of $
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`The issue fee required by 37 CFR 1.18 is $
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`(c) I:I The issue fee and publication fee, if applicable, has not been received.
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`3.|:I Applicant’s failure to timely file corrected drawings as required by, and within the three-month period set in, the Notice of
`Allowability (PTO—37).
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`(a) I:I Proposed corrected drawings were received on
`after the expiration of the period for reply.
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`(b) I:I No corrected drawings have been received.
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`(with a Certificate of Mailing or Transmission dated
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`4. I] The letter of express abandonment which is signed by the attorney or agent of record, the assignee of the entire interest, or all of
`the applicants.
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`5. I:I The letter of express abandonment which is signed by an attorney or agent (acting in a representative capacity under 37 CFR
`1.34(a)) upon the filing of a continuing application.
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`6. E] The decision by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interference rendered on
`of the decision has expired and there are no allowed claims.
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`and because the period for seeking court review
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`7. I:| The reason(s) below:
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`/KIRSTEN S APPLE/
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`Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3694
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`Petitions to revive under 37 CFR 1.137(a) or (b), or requests to withdraw the holding of abandonment under 37 CFR 1.181, should be promptly filed to
`minimize an neative effects on atent term.
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`CONF {MATION NO.
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`12/098,154
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`04/04/2008
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`Richad Frankland
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`APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ
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`Office Action Summary
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`Application No.
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`App|icant(s)
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`FRANKLAND ET AL.
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`KIRSTEN 3. APPLE
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`A SHORTENED STATUTORY PERIOD FOR REPLY IS SET TO EXPIRE Q MONTH(S) OR THIRTY (30) DAYS,
`WHICHEVER IS LONGER, FROM THE MAILING DATE OF THIS COMMUNICATION.
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`In no event, however, may a reply be timely filed
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`- Failure to reply within the set or extended period for reply will, by statute, cause the application to become ABANDONED (35 U.S.C. § 133).
`Any reply received by the Office later than three months after the mailing date of this communication, even if timely filed, may reduce any
`earned patent term adjustment. See 37 CFR 1.704(b).
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`Status
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`1)IXI Responsive to communication(s) filed on 24 July 2008.
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`2a)I:I This action is FINAL.
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`2b)IXI This action is non-final.
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`3)I:I Since this application is in condition for allowance except for formal matters, prosecution as to the merits is
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`closed in accordance with the practice under Ex parte Quayle, 1935 C.D. 11, 453 O.G. 213.
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`Disposition of Claims
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`4)IXI C|aim(s)1is/are pending in the application.
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`4a) Of the above c|aim(s)
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`is/are withdrawn from consideration.
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`5)I:I C|aim(s)
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`is/are allowed.
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`6)IXI C|aim(s)1 is/are rejected.
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`7)I:I C|aim(s) j is/are objected to.
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`8)I:I C|aim(s) j are subject to restriction and/or election requirement.
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`Application Papers
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`9)I:I The specification is objected to by the Examiner.
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`10)I:I The drawing(s) filed on
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`is/are: a)I:I accepted or b)I:I objected to by the Examiner.
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`Applicant may not request that any objection to the drawing(s) be held in abeyance. See 37 CFR 1.85(a).
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`Replacement drawing sheet(s) including the correction is required if the drawing(s) is objected to. See 37 CFR 1.121(d).
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`11)I:I The oath or declaration is objected to by the Examiner. Note the attached Office Action or form PTO-152.
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`Priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119
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`12)I:I Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (f).
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`b)I:I Some * c)I:I None of:
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`1.I:I Certified copies of the priority documents have been received.
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`2.I:I Certified copies of the priority documents have been received in Application No.
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`3.I:I Copies of the certified copies of the priority documents have been received in this National Stage
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`application from the International Bureau (PCT Rule 17.2(a)).
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`* See the attached detailed Office action for a list of the certified copies not received.
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`2) D Notice of Draftsperson's Patent Drawing Review (PTO-948)
`3) |:| Information Disclosure Statement(s) (PTO/SB/08)
`Paper No(s)/Mail Date
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`U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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`4) D Interview Summary (PTO-413)
`Paper N0(S)/M3” Data E
`5) I:I Notice of informal Patent Application
`6) D Other:
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`PTOL-326 (Rev. 08-06)
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`Office Action Summary
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`Application/Control Number: 12/098,154
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`Page 2
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`Art Unit: 3694
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`Detailed Action
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`This action is in response to the application filed on 7/24/08.
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`Priority
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`Acknowledgment is made of applicant's claim for prior continuation of the prior of
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`Application No. 09/797,488, filed 3/1/2001 now patent 7,356,482.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 1 01
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`35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
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`Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or
`any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and
`requirements of this title.
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`Claims 2-7 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to
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`non-statutory subject matter.
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`In order for a method to be considered a "process" under §101, a claimed process must
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`either: (1) be tied to another statutory class (such as a particular apparatus) or (2) transform
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`underlying subject matter (such as an article or materials). Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175, 184
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`(1981); Parker v. Flook, 437 U.S. 584, 588 n.9 (1978); Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63, 70
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`(1972). If neither of these requirements is met by the claim, the method is not a patent eligible
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`process under §101 and is non-statutory subject matter.
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`Examiner finds these method claims lack structure such as on a “computer readable
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`medium”. One example of corrective action might be to place “electronically" before an action
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`verb and “on computer (or other appropriate structure)"
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`For example in the claim:
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`“Method comprising:
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`Calculating a score
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`Assigning rank...”
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`Would need to become:
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`“Method comprising:
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`Electronically calculating a score on a processor...
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`Electronically assigning rank on a processor...”
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`This is just one elementary example to provide guidance however there many be various
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`ways to overcome the l0l method without changes to the invention.
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`The examiner acknowledges that there are elements such as "user interface" and
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`"application" that most likely are on a computer but requests that the computer or processor is
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`positively recited.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 1 03
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`The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. l03(a) which forms the basis for all
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`obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
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`(a) A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in
`section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are
`such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person
`having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived by the
`manner in which the invention was made.
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`Claims listed below in this section are rejected under 35 U.S.C. l03(a) as being
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`unpatentable over Dodrill (U.S. Patent 6,766,298) and McLauchlin (U.S. Patent 6,754,672)
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`Re claim 2 & 8 & 14: Dodrill discloses:
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`A method & system, comprising:
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`Page 4
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`Art Unit: 3694
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`Receiving first information about unique aspects of a particular application (see Dodrill,
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`column 16, claim 1 there are multiple "first information" that read on this limitation — the
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`examiner will use the "XML page” and “XML tags” as the “first information”);
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`Receiving second information about user interface elements and one or more functions
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`common to various applications (see Dodrill column 17, claim ll “user interface"), the various
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`applications including the particular application;
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`Upon establishment of a communication connection with a user system that includes the
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`particular application, dynamically generating a functionality and a user interface for the
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`particular application, the functionality and the user interface of the particular application being
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`base on the first information and a second information (see Dodrill column 17, claim ll);
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`Providing the functionality and the user interface of the particular application to the user
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`system (see Dodrill column 17, claim 11 + Figure 8); and
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`Modifying at least one of the first information and the second information in response to
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`changes determined to have occurred to information associated with the particular application
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`(see Dodrill, column 16, claim 2 “second XML” + column 17, claim 15)
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`The examiner believes Dodrill shows the aspects of the claim but because the claims are
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`generic many prior art reference included all the claim limitation of the claims. The examiner
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`has provided a second reference as well. Almost all of the references cited in the "notice of
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`reference cite" by the examiner would full read on the applicants limitations as a 102.
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`A method & system, comprising:
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`Page 5
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`Art Unit: 3694
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`Receiving first information about unique aspects of a particular application (see
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`McLauchlin, column 12, claim 1 + figure 1, item 36 & 40 “data source” and “schema” are the
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`“information”);
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`Receiving second information about user interface elements and one or more functions
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`common to various applications (see McLauchlin, column 12, claim 1 “user interface”), the
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`various applications including the particular application;
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`Upon establishment of a communication connection with a user system that includes the
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`particular application, dynamically generating a functionality and a user interface for the
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`particular application, the functionality and the user interface of the particular application being
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`base on the first information and a second information (see McLauchlin, column 12, claim 1
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`“user interface”);
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`Providing the functionality and the user interface of the particular application to the user
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`system (see McLauchlin, column 12, claim 6); and
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`Modifying at least one of the first information and the second information in response to
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`changes determined to have occurred to information associated with the particular application
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`(see Dodrill, column 16, claim 4 “supplemental data source”)
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`Re claim 3 & 9 & 15: Dodrill discloses see page , column, line . Note “predetermined
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`business application" could read on a very broad area the word "application" could be software
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`to any business process and the qualifiers “predetermined business” also read very broadly - just
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`about every application is business.
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`Re claim 4 & 10 & 16: Dodrill discloses:
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`XML page is considered by the examiner to be a logical design (see Dodrill, paragraph)
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`Page 6
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`Art Unit: 3694
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`Claims listed below in this section are rejected under 35 U.S.C. l03(a) as being
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`unpatentable over Dodrill (U.S. Patent 6,766,298) and McLauchlin (U.S. Patent 6,754,672) in
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`further view of Wikipedia
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`Re claim 5 & 11 & 17: Dodrill discloses see column 17, claim ll “user interface
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`generation parameters”
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`Although Dodrill does not have metadata, Wikipedia claims “Metadata”
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`Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the
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`invention was made to modify Dodrill by adapting metadata of Wikipedia.
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`It is clear that one would be motivated to combine prior art elements according to know
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`methods to yield predictable results.
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`Below is what wikipedia says about metadata (httta
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`etadata)
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`Metadata is loosely defined as data about data. Though this definition is easy to remember, it is
`not very precise. The strength of this definition is in recognizing that metadata is data. As such,
`metadata can be stored and managed in a database, often called a registry or repository.
`However, it is impossible to identify metadata just by looking at it. We don't know when data is
`metadata or just data.L1"l Metadata is a concept that applies mainly to electronically archived data
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`definition
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`structure
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`administration
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`of data files with all contents in context to ease the use of the captured and archived data for
`further use. Web pages often include metadata in the form of meta tags. Description and
`keywords meta tags are commonly used to describe the Web page's content. Most search engines
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`So by definition of metadata it is “representative of structures and functions associated
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`with a plurality of application"
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`Re claim 6 & 12 & 18: see claim 5 above + Dodrill discloses column 5 line 53 + others
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`+ see McLauchlin, column 12, claim 3 “reporting”
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`Re claim 7 & 13 & 19: Dodrill discloses see column 18, Claim 26 + see claim 2
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`rejection above
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`Claims listed below in this section are rejected under 35 U.S.C. l03(a) as being
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`unpatentable over Dodrill (U.S. Patent 6,766,298) and McLauchlin (U.S. Patent 6,754,672) in
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`further view of Tsirigotis (US Patent 6,098,096)
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`Re claim 14: Dodrill discloses:
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`See claim 2 rejection above +
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`Server (see Dodrill, Figure 8, item 64 or 66 + see McLauchlin, Figure 1)
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`Although Dodrill does not have portions of a server, Tsirigotis claims five portions of a
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`server (see Tsirigotis, column 3, lines 32-52)
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`Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the
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`invention was made to modify Dodrill by adapting portions of a server of Tsirigotis.
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`It is clear that one would be motivated to combine prior art elements according to know
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`methods to yield predictable results.
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`Examiner Note
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`If the examiner had not read the application number she never would have realized that
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`these claims went with this specification. The claims are extremely generic and broad there is no
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`mention about regulatory changes or anything that the invention talks about in the first 13 pages
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`of the specification that the invention is trying to solve/ directed at.
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`Currently the independent claim has 1) “unique aspect” and 2) “user interface element”
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`for a particular application. If you talked to any software developer every project they worked
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`on has at least these two elements and probably 100% of their software projects.
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`Contact Information
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`Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the
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`examiner should be directed to Kirsten S. Apple whose telephone number is 571.272.5588. The
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`examiner can normally be reached on Monday - Friday 9:00-5:30.
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`If attempts to reach the examiner by telephone are unsuccessful, the examiner’s
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`supervisor, James Trammell can be reached on 571-272-6712. The fax phone number for the
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`organization where this application or proceeding is assigned is (571) 273-8300.
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`Information regarding the status of an application may be obtained from the Patent
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`Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) system. Status information for published applications
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`may be obtained from either Private PAIR or Public PAIR. Status information for unpublished
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`/Kirsten S Apple/
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`Notice of References Cited Examiner
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`Application/Control No.
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`KIRSTEN 3. APPLE
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