Appeal No. 2002-2011
Application No. 09/163,643
that Burke does disclose the determination of an affinity between
first and second bookmarks and associating the first bookmark
with the second bookmark. However, as the examiner recognized,
Burke does not teach that the second bookmark is displayed “in
response to” a user selecting the first bookmark, as claimed. In
order to provide for this teaching, the examiner cites Figure 5
of Maarek. But, even the examiner admits that, in Maarek, the
selection of a bookmark “set,” of a folder entitled “Netscape:
Bookmarks,” results in a plurality of related displayed
bookmarks, themselves incorporating a plurality of additional
related bookmarks (answer-page 13).
A bookmark “set” or a folder is not the same as a bookmark.
While claim 7 does not specifically recite an “individual” or
“single” bookmark, it is clear that this is what is intended by
the phrases, “a first bookmark” (emphasis added) and “a second
bookmark” (emphasis added). That being the case, it is apparent
to us that the disclosure of a bookmark “set,” or folder, by
Maarek, wherein the selection of a bookmark set results in a
plurality of related displayed bookmarks, would not have
suggested to the skilled artisan the display of an individual
bookmark in response to a user selecting another individual
bookmark.
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