Appeal No. 2004-1003
Application No. 09/728,250
resume by merely applying a different style sheet to the user data file, without having to re-enter
user information into each resume style sheet.
We find nothing disclosed or suggested in the applied references that provides for these
claimed features.
It appears that ResuMaker is nothing more than an online resume generator, wherein a
user is guided through a series of pages for entering data and guided through selections for a
resume style, or layout. But, even the examiner admits that ResuMaker does not teach resume
style defining formatting parameters for the entire online resume, including margins, font
type/size, justifications, with each style having an associated style sheet including positions of
fields of data. Without a teaching of the claimed “style sheet corresponding to the selected
resume,” ResuMaker clearly cannot meet the instant claim requirements of applying the style
sheet to the user data file to transform the user data file into a resume file. Thus, we turn to
Microsoft to determine if this reference would have provided to the artisan some reason to
modify ResuMaker in order to result in the instant claimed invention.
We agree with appellants that Microsoft suggests user-selectable default documents based
upon “associated templates” that describe a specific resume style, but that each style template in
Microsoft does not have a corresponding style sheet, as claimed. Therefore, there cannot be an
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