Appeal No. 2003-1094
Application No. 09/131,063
mean that the information used to build the comment is derived
from the comment data tag itself (page 28, lines 12-16). The
appellants’ interpretation is consistent with this interpretation
(brief, pages 7 and 9).
The examiner argues (answer, pages 14-15):
Hayashi et al fail to explicitly teach (d) adding a new
comment to the comment data structure by building the
comment from information in a comment data tag.
However, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art at the time of the invention to have
edited a comment, by adding new information to comment
data already present in the comment located between
HTML tags building the comment from information in a
comment, document using well known HTML editing
techniques, and then displaying because Hayashi et al
teach the correction or editing of a comment tag
template located in a database (Col. 14, lines 64-67),
and therefore it would have been obvious to edit or
correct the same comment information in an HTML version
of the same comment.
The comment tag template referred to by the examiner has a tag
name and a field list, and is a format for inputting the data
used to create a comment data tag (col. 10, lines 60-63; col. 12,
lines 40-43). The examiner apparently is arguing that Hayashi’s
disclosure of correcting the tag template so that comment data is
inputted in a different format would have fairly suggested, to
one of ordinary skill in the art, changing comment data already
in a comment data tag embedded in a HTML document. The examiner,
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