U.S. Serial No. 14/627, 703
`Response to Office Action dated December 30, 2016
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`Patent
`Att. Dkt. No. CU-100221
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`REMARKS
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`In the Office Action, claims 1-21 are rejected. The Applicant submits that the
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`amendment herein overcome the rejection and objections to the claims. Favorable
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`reconsideration is respectfully requested.
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`In the Claims, please amend claims 1-5, 8-12, and 15-19. The amendments to the
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`claims are fully supported by the original disclosure, for example in paragraphs 52 and 56-5 8,
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`and also in Figures 6 and parts of Figures 7A-7C. Therefore, no new matter has been added.
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`The amendments to the claims can be viewed in the Amendments section of this paper in the
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`Listing of claims beginning on page 2 herein.
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`In the Office Action, the Examiner has provided that the dependency of claim 12
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`should be amended, and that claims 15-21 are interpreted to include both hardware and
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`software. The Applicant has amended the claims for clarity and requests that the objection be
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`withdrawn.
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`Claims 8-14 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. §101 for being directed to non-statutory
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`subject matter. The Applicant has amended independent claim 8 to read “non-transitory” thus
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`overcoming the rejection. The Applicant submits that the amended claims 8-14 are directed to
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`statutory subject matter and respectfully requests that the rejection thereof be withdrawn.
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`Claims 1-21 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as being obvious over Geary. The
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`Applicant submits that the amendments to the claims overcomes the rejection and requests
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`withdrawal of the same.
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`The Applicant has amended the claims to include the step of associating a matching
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`quantity with each of the first level categories in the independent claims, and then in the
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`dependent claims included the step of adjusting the matching quantity after user input (and
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`adjusting after each user input, additional matching quantities). The Applicant submits that
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`these steps are found nowhere in the reference, and therefore, at least for this reason, the
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`method of the claims is non-obvious and allowable. Withdrawal of the rejection is respectfully
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`solicited.
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`It
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`is believed that all of the stated grounds of rejection have been properly traversed,
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`U.S. Serial No. 14/627, 703
`Response to Office Action dated December 30, 2016
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`Patent
`Att. Dkt. No. CU-100221
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`accommodated, or rendered moot. Applicant therefore respectfully requests that the Examiner
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`reconsider and Withdraw all presently outstanding rejections. It is believed that a full and complete
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`response has been made to the outstanding Office Action and the present application is in condition
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`for allowance. Thus, prompt and favorable consideration of this amendment is respectfully requested.
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`The Examiner is encouraged to contact
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`the undersigned representative for the Applicant
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`to
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`expeditiously resolve any further issues.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`_/zareefabflener/
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`Zareefa B. Flener, Reg. No. 52,896
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`FLENER 1P LAW
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`77 West Washington Street
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`Chicago IL 60602
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