Appeal No. 2002-1707 Page 3
Application No. 09/211,527
automatically modifying the content provided by the network device
to the device based on the policies and the provided session dependent
information so as to modify the content provided to the user of the device.
Claims 2, 7, 8-13 16, 21-27, 30, 35-41, 43-45 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as obvious over U.S. Patent No. 5,835,726 ("Shwed") and U.S. Patent
No. 6,009,459 ("Belfiore").
OPINION
Rather than reiterate the positions of the examiner or the appellants in toto, we
address the main point of contention therebetween. Admitting that "Shwed et al fail to
teach . . . modify[ing] content provided to the user of the device," (Final Rejection2 at 3),
the examiner asserts, "it would have been obvious . . . to modify S[h]wed et al's
inventive concept to include Belfiore et al's inventive concept that modify content
provided to the user of the device because this would have ensure [sic] that the user
receive the particular content selected in the search session." (Id.) The appellants
argue, "in Belfiore, the only discussion of 'content' being altered occurs at the client and
2"We advise the examiner to copy his rejections into his examiner’s answers
rather than merely referring to a "rejection . . . set forth in prior Office Action. . . ."
(Examiner’s Answer at 3.) Ex parte Metcalf, 67 USPQ2d 1633, 1635 (Bd.Pat.App.& Int.
2003).
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