Appeal No. 2004-0870 Page 6
Application No. 09/477,419
case of obviousness." In re Rijckaert, 9 F.3d 1531, 1532, 28 USPQ2d 1955, 1956 (Fed.
Cir. 1993) (citing In re Oetiker, 977 F.2d 1443, 1445, 24 USPQ2d 1443, 1444 (Fed. Cir.
1992)). "'A prima facie case of obviousness is established when the teachings from the
prior art itself would appear to have suggested the claimed subject matter to a person of
ordinary skill in the art.'" In re Bell, 991 F.2d 781, 783, 26 USPQ2d 1529, 1531 (Fed.
Cir. 1993) (quoting In re Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1051, 189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA
1976)).
Here, Williams discloses "a user interface mechanism for maintaining quick
access to important information in windows-based computer environments, such as
network and systems applications." Col. 1, ll. 24-27. "[T]he user interface of the
window has several components, including: a scoping pane, [and] a content pane. . . ."
Col. 2, ll. 55-56. The "scoping pane . . . ha[s] a plurality of locations that are available to
be selected by a user of the user interface, wherein each location of the plurality of
locations has a set of content information that on [selection can] be presented to the
user. . . ." Col. 9, ll. 5-10. In Figure 1a of the reference, for example, the scoping 16,
which is also a scoping window, includes minimized representations of locations such
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