Appeal No. 2004-1201
Application No. 09/051,118
across all stated rejections of the claims on appeal admits that Dolan does
not specifically teach two key features recited in each claim on appeal, that
of assigning a different identifier to a link and selecting an identifier from
among different presented identifiers assigned to the link presented for
selection. We agree with appellants’ views expressed initially at pages 9
and 10 of the principal brief on appeal that Kogan actually fails to teach or
suggest that which is asserted by the examiner to make up for the
deficiencies of Dolan.
Because we essentially agree with appellants’ views at pages 9 and
10 of the principal brief on appeal, we reproduce them here:
Kogan discloses selecting an “anchor” using user command. Kogan
states that the exact nature of the command is not relevant and will most
frequently be a pointing device such as a mouse. (See footnote 2 in col. 8
of Kogan). Appellant submits that Kogan thus fails to remedy Dolan’s
deficiency of failing to teach a “command-based interface” for inputting
identifiers. One of ordinary skill in the art would not have been even
motivated to look at Kogan for a teaching as to what might useful in
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