Appeal 2007-0731
Application 09/899,454
1 the bookmarks may be maintained on both a server and the user’s local machine
2 and used in conjunction with a web browser. (Para. 0076, 0077). The user’s local
3 machine queries the bookmark server when a user session begins to obtain the
4 information about the bookmarks. The user’s machine also notifies the bookmark
5 server if the user has made any changes to the list of bookmarks. Pitkow also
6 teaches that the bookmark server may be used in providing web searches. (Para.
7 0103).
8 Ryan teaches a search engine for the internet. The system considers several
9 factors in determining whether a web site meets the users search criteria. One of
10 the measures is a measure of popularity based upon the number of times a web site
11 is visited. Number of times accessed is referred to as number of hits value “x,” see
12 column 11, line 56 through column 12, line 31, tables 2 and 3, popularity in
13 general is also discussed in col. 20-23. Ryan also teaches that results from a search
14 may be saved in a manner similar to bookmarking. See column 20, lines 46-53 and
15 column 23, lines 20-32.
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17 PRINCIPLES OF LAW
18 As was recently described in In re Kahn, 441 F.3d 977, 78 USPQ2d 1329
19 (Fed. Cir. 2006):
20 [T]he “motivation-suggestion-teaching” test asks not
21 merely what the references disclose, but whether a person
22 of ordinary skill in the art, possessed with the
23 understandings and knowledge reflected in the prior art,
24 and motivated by the general problem facing the
25 inventor, would have been led to make the combination
26 recited in the claims. From this it may be determined
27 whether the overall disclosures, teachings, and
28 suggestions of the prior art, and the level of skill in the
29 art – i.e., the understandings and knowledge of persons
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