Appeal No. 2002-0119
Application No. 09/015,713
evidence is required in order to establish a prima facie case.
In re Piasecki, 745 F.2d 1468, 1471-72, 223 USPQ 785, 787-88
(Fed. Cir. 1984). The Examiner must not only identify the
elements in the prior art, but also show “some objective teaching
in the prior art or that knowledge generally available to one of
ordinary skill in the art would lead the individual to combine
the relevant teachings of the references.” In re Fine, 837 F.2d
1071, 1074, 5 USPQ2d 1596, 1598 (Fed. Cir. 1988).
A review of the applied prior art confirms that Schumacher
relates to a computer application for viewing documents having a
predefined structure (col. 1, lines 12-14). As pointed out by
Appellant (brief, page 8), Schumacher provides an alternative to
browsing through a long document wherein using information links
within the document makes it difficult to obtain information
since the only access to other parts of the document is in
whatever part of the document that is being displayed (col. 2,
lines 19-25). Although Schumacher teaches that the predefined
document structure provides overview information (col. 4, lines
49-56) and also includes sub-headings within each heading for
product description, aliases and usage instructions (col. 4,
lines 56-60), the document itself includes no entries with anchor
tags. Schumacher, in fact, avoids forming information links
within the document and merely marks the document to identify
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