Appeal No. 2002-0145
Application No. 09/090,990
machine for handling direct text or HTML, with the ability to
convert one form into the other, concluding that it would have
been obvious to incorporate the conversion and delivery methods
provided by Pallmann into the conversion and delivery system of
Tang in order to provide an improved method of conversion of data
to be transmitted to users over a network.
Our review of Tang convinces us of the correctness of
appellant’s position, at page 28 of the principal brief, wherein
appellant asserts that Tang teaches that components are converted
into equivalent components whose types are compatible with all
the different transmission media and not with the recipient’s
requirements/preferences, as urged by the examiner. If
components are converted into equivalent components whose types
are compatible with all the different transmission media, this
does not appear relevant to the claimed features of creating an
HTML document, checking the designated recipients for HTML
capability and sending the document to designated recipients in
accordance with the recipient’s HTML capability.
Moreover, since Pallmann is directed to adding plug-ins
between a data source and a data target, it is unclear what would
have motivated an artisan to combine these references in the
manner sought by the examiner. As appellant points out, at pages
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