Appeal No. 2004-1003
Application No. 09/728,250
The examiner further notes that Microsoft “teaches a default document based upon its
associated template which describes a specific resume style, including directions to click on
various resume positions to type relevant information” (answer-page 4).
The examiner then concludes that it would have been obvious to apply Microsoft to
ResuMaker, “providing a user of ResuMaker the convenience of comparing and selecting pre-
configured resume styles, as well as providing specific positions for input of data onto said
resume” (answer-page 5).
Appellants do not deny that Microsoft teaches user-selectable default documents based
upon associated templates that describe a specific resume style, but they do argue that “unlike the
claims of the present invention, each style template in MS Word does not have ‘a corresponding
style sheet’ and therefore the user cannot change the resume style once the template is applied to
the user data” (brief-page 8). Appellants urge that the reason Microsoft does not allow the user
to change styles after the style is selected and applied to user data is because Microsoft “merges
formatting data with the user data. In the present invention, formatting data for each style is
provided in the style sheet and stored separately from the user data. Thus, the present invention
allows the user to switch the style of the entire resume in a single command without having to
reenter personal data” (brief-page 9).
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