Appeal No. 2002-0799
Application No. 08/947,435
With respect to independent claims 1 and 51, the examiner applies the teachings
of Zarmer as follows:
“importing a document...” is said to be disclosed at column 6, lines 19-40, with
column 7, lines 18-27; column 12, lines 41-48; and column 18, lines 17-23 providing
disclosure for organizing a collection of documents according to a hierarchy of
electronic folders and for storing the documents in a memory location.
“automatically extracting attribute data from the document” is said to be taught by
Zarmer at column 18, lines 24-34.
“generating a data structure for the document” is said to be taught at column 23,
lines 40-51 and column 24, lines 48-63, with the data structure containing attribute data
in a second format independent from the first format being taught at column 24, lines
6-18 and column 4, lines 41-49. The examiner contends that “linking the imported
document to a first electronic folder” is taught at column 6, lines 12-15 and 35-40.
The examiner recognizes that Zarmer does not teach that the data structure is
stored and maintained in memory separate from the imported document and that the
attribute data in the data structure matches a set of predefined criteria corresponding to
the first electronic folder. But, the examiner finds that it would have been obvious “to
have a set of predefined criteria because the information in the data structure is
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