Appeal No. 96-2021
Application 08/004,016
from the selective display of date and time information without
display of the link information because Nielsen only reveals
specific time data when the link location is actually visited
[brief, pages 5-6].
We are of the view that this record does not support the
examiner’s assertion that the modifications which must be made to
Nielsen to arrive at the claimed invention are a matter of
obvious design choice. The invention of claim 29 allows the user
to selectively obtain specific information regarding date and
time of a previous visit without having to revisit the site.
Nielsen only gives a crude indication of a previous visit which
must be interpreted by the user. Thus, one problem solved by
appellant’s invention is that the user does not have to be
skilled in determining how much time corresponds to a given
amount of fade in the marker. Although we recognize that there
are similarities between the claimed invention and Nielsen, the
claimed invention provides advantages for the user which simply
are not suggested by the teachings of Nielsen. In fact, the
modification of Nielsen to selectively display the faded markers
would serve no purpose and would make Nielsen less useful.
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