Appeal No. 2001-0677
Application No. 08/974,575
selection via a pull down menu and that adding a print button onto the display of a Web
page would not have been necessary or motivated. (See brief at page 8. ) We agree
with appellant. Appellant argues that the skilled artisan would not have been motivated
to add printing to the real time collaborative environment as taught by Cuomo. (See
brief at page 8.) We agree with appellant.
From our review of Cuomo, Cuomo teaches that one of the objects of Cuomo’s
invention is to use proxies and shared state servers to enable collaboration within
existing Web browsers. Additionally, Cuomo teaches that the Proxy 202 contains
Forwarding Software 204 that requests Web pages, forwards them to the appropriate
Web Server 206 and manipulates the retrieved data before delivering it to the Web
Browser 205. (Cuomo at col. 3.) Cuomo uses an Applet 207 embedded by the
Forwarding Software 204 and the Applet receives commands from the collaboration
session and provides that information to the Client Software 203 that the Client
Software can disseminate to the collaboration session. (Cuomo at col. 4.) From the
teachings of Cuomo, we find no teaching or suggestion to modify a Web page and
insert a print button.
Appellant argues that Harkins teaches a similar use of a print functionality, but
from a “network services” icon on the display interface and that it would not have been
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