Appeal No. 2002-0648
Application 09/090,698
their respective approaches. The teaching value of both
references is clearly indicating to the artisan that such
matching or comparison may be applied to domain names as well
as any other type of address component.
The examiner has formulated the second stated rejection by
adding the teaching value of Berstis to those of Earl and Nielsen
respectively as to claims 9, 12, 21, 24, 33 and 36 within
35 U.S.C. § 103.
Again noting that the appellant's brief does not contest the
combinability of Berstis to Earl and Nielsen, we are unpersuaded
by appellant's arguments at pages 14-16 of the brief as to
dependent claims 9, 21 and 33 which depend respectively from
independent claims 8, 20 and 32. They recite the feature of
determining whether any of the plurality of search result
addresses are duplicates. As identified by the examiner in the
answer, the references clearly teach the capability of presenting
lists of addresses that result from search inquiries. The
examiner's arguments in the answer at pages 7 and 13-14 are
persuasive. The lists presented at the noted locations in
Berstis clearly are inclusive of search results that may include
duplicates. Figures 4 and 5 of this reference make clear
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