Appeal 2007-0731
Application 09/899,454
1 Examiner therefore asserts that it would have been obvious to combine the
2 references to arrive at the invention.
3 The Appellants’ contention presents us with the issue of whether Pitkow and
4 Ryan provide sufficient evidence to show that it would have been obvious to a
5 skilled artisan to display with a list of bookmarks, data rates of transmission of said
6 bookmarked documents.
7 FINDINGS OF FACT
8 Pitkow teaches a system for storing and organizing bookmarks. (Para. 0049).
9 The drawings in the Pitkow Patent Application Publication (US 2002/0016786) are
10 clearly not related to the disclosure of the publication and are not the drawings
11 filed with that application. The Pitkow Patent (US 7,031,961) contains the
12 drawings discussed in and filed with Pitkow’s patent application. Accordingly, our
13 discussion of Pitkow’s drawings is drawn to the drawings in the Pitkow Patent.
14 Pitkow teaches a system where bookmarks for a group of users are stored in a
15 bookmark database. (Para. 0050) By storing the bookmarks on a central server the
16 system allows for additional information concerning the bookmarks to be
17 presented such as whether the bookmarked page is available, is popular, or has
18 been recently updated. (Para. 0053). This information is presented alongside the
19 bookmark; see for figure 2, the icon, 228, in column 222, identifies that the
20 bookmarked web page is unavailable, the icon, 230, in column 224, identifies that
21 the bookmarked web page contains new content, and the icon, 232, in column 226,
22 identifies that the bookmark is popular. (Para. 0053-0055) Pitkow teaches that
23 popularity of the bookmark can be determined based upon how many other users
24 have the same bookmark or that other means of determining popularity may be
25 used such as frequency of use. (Para. 0055, 0086, 0097). Though Pitkow’s system
26 primarily uses a bookmark server to store the bookmarks, Pitkow also teaches that
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