Response to Office Action

The Examiner has continued the final refusal to register relating to the identification of goods in International Class 9 in the subject application; a request to divide this application was filed on February 8, 2005.  With this response, Applicant amends the identification of goods for the remaining goods in International Class 9 using much of the language suggested by the Examiner.

Applicant notes the use of the common commercial term "packaged composite applications" in the revised identification of goods.  This is a common term used to identify a specific form of off-the-shelf software that integrates with pre-existing applications and essentially allows the different pre-existing applications to be developed and deployed together.  For example, the following is an online description of "packaged composite applications" used in connection with the promotion of a book titled "Packaged Composite Applications An O'Reilly Field Guide to Enterprise Software" published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

(See http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pkgcompaps/desc.html):

Today's corporate computing environment is too often characterized by silos of data in enterprise applications like ERP, CRM, and supply chain management. Integrating these applications involves hardwiring connections between them, often resulting in a rigid and inefficient IT infrastructure.

Packaged Composite Applications (PCAs) are an innovative answer to this dysfunctional scenario. Originated by SAP, one of the worlds foremost technology companies, PCAs represent a new architectural paradigm for enterprise computing. Using web services, they combine new functionality with services from existing applications to enable flexible, cross-functional automation. But is this new model right for your business? That's where this book comes in.

Packaged Composite Applications is the result of a systematic search through the brain trust of SAP for all of the relevant arguments, examples, concepts, and analogies related to Packaged Composite Applications. This book is not a marketing treatise about neatly-shaped colored boxes. It is not a backward-looking, outdated description of a product without context. This book, rather, combines the approach of a forward-looking analyst with the perspective of an executive who must make things work, without skimping on the relevant technical details. The author examines the ideas driving PCAs forward in the marketplace and the problems and solutions that an executive and technologist will encounter in implementation. The result is an authoritative text that allows all interested parties to assess the value of PCAs for their lives as executives, technologists, analysts, sales representatives, and users.

Based on the amendment herein and the above, Applicant respectfully submits that the amended identification of goods complies with the requirements of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and that this application is in condition for approval for publication and, in due course, registration.