Appeal No. 2003-0238
Application No. 08/886,349
Appellant continues (Brief, pages 12-13) that none of the
references teach or suggest a notification message with a link to
a survey web page, as recited in claims 17 through 19, 25 through
27, 31, 33, and 51. Specifically, appellant argues that "[a]
link is more than an address. A link (e.g., a hyperlink)
provides direct access to the specific survey that has been
selected for the recipient to participate in." Although we agree
that Dacko does not state that the address in the e-mail is
actually a hyperlink to an Internet address, we disagree that
appellant's hyperlink provides any more specificity as to where
the respondent is to go. Instead the provision of a hyperlink to
an Internet address merely makes it easier for the respondent to
get to said address by reducing the number of steps to get there.
Since a hyperlink to an address is known to make it easier for a
respondent to reach the address, it would have been obvious to
provide a hyperlink rather than just the address. Therefore, we
find that appellant's arguments as to claims 17 through 19, 25
through 27, 31, 33, and 51 are not compelling.
Appellant contends (Brief, pages 13-16) that none of the
references teaches or suggests on-line registration of
participants as recited in independent claims 1, 10, 17, 28, and
49. Greenfield Online discloses private research studies using
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