Ex Parte Bier - Page 4

                Appeal 2007-1105                                                                             
                Application 09/731,912                                                                       

           1    within the electronic document” (Br. 3:4-5) or the selected (and edited)                     
           2    portion includes “template information or formatting information”                            
           3    (Br. 3:6-13).                                                                                
           4          With respect to claims 34, 38, and 42, Appellant further contends that                 
           5    the reference disclosures do not disclose or suggest “the formatting                         
           6    information is distinct from editable content items of the electronic                        
           7    document” (Br. 7:15-19).                                                                     
           8          With respect to claims 35, 39, and 43, Appellant further contends that                 
           9    the reference disclosures do not disclose or suggest “merging a modified                     
          10    content item back into an electronic document under the condition where                      
          11    template information or formatting information of the document was altered                   
          12    while a content item was modified” (Br. 8:1-3).                                              
          13          With respect to claims 36, 40, and 44, Appellant further contends that                 
          14    the reference disclosures do not disclose or suggest merging “a modified                     
          15    item template back into the electronic document even if the content of one or                
          16    more items managed by the item template was altered while the item                           
          17    template item was being modified” (Br. 8:14-16).                                             
          18          We affirm.                                                                             
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          20                                     ISSUE(S)                                                    
          21          Has Appellant shown that the Examiner has failed to establish one                      
          22    skilled in the art would have incorporated editable template and format                      
          23    information into Chang’s editing of Sparrow community-shared web page                        
          24    documents in such a manner as to obtain “group-editable web page editing                     



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