Ex Parte Keohane et al - Page 6


               Appeal No. 2006-3121                                                                         
               Application No. 10/165,083                                                                   


               actually made by appellants have been considered in this decision.  Arguments                
               which appellants could have made but chose not to make in the briefs have not                
               been considered and are deemed to be waived [see 37 CFR                                      
               § 41.37(c)(1)(vii)(2004)].                                                                   
                      Regarding the independent claims, the examiner's rejection essentially                
               finds that Jones teaches every claimed feature except for (1) requesting source              
               information associated with an object from a first application in response to                
               copying an object in a first document to a buffer, and (2) incorporating the source          
               information into the second document responsive to pasting the object to the                 
               second document.  Regarding difference (1), the examiner cites Burner as                     
               teaching requesting a web page for which metadata is displayed.  The examiner                
               finds that, in view of Burner, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in        
               the art at the time of the invention to modify Jones to request a web page for               
               which metadata is displayed so that metadata corresponding to a web page is                  
               displayed along with the web page.  Regarding difference (2), the examiner cites             
               Word as teaching copying and pasting text associated with footnotes from one                 
               document to another.  The examiner finds that, in view of Word, it would have                
               been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention to             
               include in Jones the feature of copying the footnote information from one                    
               document and pasting into another to identify and associate metadata with its                
               corresponding content [answer, pages 3-7].                                                   




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