Appeal No. 97-1223 Page 12
Application No. 08/147,143
claim language to the disclosures of Capps, Soviero, or Slate.
Their is no indication of what language is missing from any of
the references. In addition, the examiner omits an
explanation of the proposed combination of the references or
why one of ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated
to form the combination. In response the appellants observe
the discussions regarding menus in the cited art describe, at
best, basic features unrelated to the suite of navigation
features of the claimed invention. (Appeal Br. at 14.)
We find the references would not have suggested the step
of displaying a browser of claim 14. The claim recites in
pertinent part the steps of “displaying a browser ..., the
browser listing a plurality of subjects contained in the book,
the browser also indicating in which of said subjects the
current page resides ....” (Appeal Br. at 18.)
Comparison of the claim language to the references’
teachings evidences the references would not have suggested
the claimed displaying a browser. The claimed browser
features an indicator 276, which shows where a user is
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