Appeal No. 2004-2266
Application No. 09/847,999
Published Patent Application
Jain US 2003/0030679 A1 Feb. 13, 2003
(filed Jan. 6, 2000)
Symposium Proceedings
Dale Newfield et al. (Newfield), “Scratchpad: Mechanisms for
Better Navigation in Directed Web Searching,” Proceedings of the
11th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and
Technology, 1998, pp. 1-8.
Claims 31-33 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Newfield, Gennaro and Jain.
Claims 31-33 stand provisionally rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 101 as claiming the same invention as that of claims 174, 175
and 176 of copending Application No. 09/594,786.
We make reference to the answer (Paper No. 19, mailed March
23, 2004) for the Examiner’s reasoning and to the appeal brief
(Paper No. 18, filed February 17, 2004) and the reply brief
(Paper No. 21, filed May 28, 2004) for Appellants’ arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
With respect to the 35 U.S.C. § 101 rejection, we note that
Appellants have not contested the position presented by the
Examiner (brief, page 9). Accordingly, we sustain the 35 U.S.C.
§ 101 rejection of the claims pro forma.
Appellants argue that, instead of visual generation of
options upon designation of a hyperlink, Newfield only allows
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