Appeal 2007-1271
Application 10/005,583
a. Appellant argues that Kuwata does not disclose uploading an
application to the user browser. Appellant argues that paragraph 0053
pointed to by the Examiner merely describes enabling extra tabs or
buttons on the web browser used by the system administrator (Br. 12).
b. The Examiner disagrees. The Examiner argues that enabling
tabs and buttons when an Administrator logs in comprises an
application since an Administrator user is allowed to access and
manage all folders and files (see Kuwata ¶ 0053) (Answer 19).
With respect to issue 4, we agree with Appellant that Kuwata does not
disclose uploading an application to the user browser. While we agree with
the Examiner that the software that enables tabs and buttons in the web
browser used by the Administrator comprises an application, we
nevertheless find nothing in the cited portion of Kuwata (see ¶ 0053) that
expressly or inherently teaches uploading at least one user application to a
computing device on which the browser runs. Our further review of the
entire Kuwata reference finds no disclosure to support the Examiner’s
position.
Issue 5:
5. We decide the question of whether Kuwata discloses the receiving,
uploading, and scanning are all performed by a scanning device.
a. Appellant argues that although the component that actually
performs the scanning is not identified by Kuwata, presumably the
scanning is performed by a separate scanner that is connected to the
server. Appellant argues that a person of ordinary skill in the art
would know that a server is not a scanning device (Br. 13).
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