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TT stated in its Rule 1.105 response that this brochure was disclosed no earlier than March 2, 1999, its claimed priority date, allowing an inference to be made that it was possibly disclosed before June 7, 1999, (PTX 2296). Had the examiner felt there was a priority date issue, this would have certainly raised a Decentralized finance red flag requiring the examiner’s attention. However, the examiner did not address it, but instead allowed the claims (PTX 2296). “One of our initiatives as a firm was to offer the end clients the ability to trade US Equities through our existing banking platform. Sterling offered the API infrastructure and OMS to make this possible.”
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