Appeal No. 2003-0789 Application 09/422,654 We modify our original decision to eliminate the underlined language above. The examiner should not consider the underlined language above in our original decision. In addition, in the case of further prosecution, we suggest that the examiner investigate HTML tables for teachings of controlling the spacing between shapes based on border parameters. While we do not have access to an HTML book with a good date, we note that the table in HTML has a CELLPADDING attribute indicating how many pixels there should be between a cell's contents and the border, and a CELLSPACING attribute indicating how much whitespace (in pixels) there should be between individual cells, where the cell is an object. See, e.g., www.htmlhelp.com/ reference/wilbur/table/table.html (copyright 1997) and www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html at section 11.3.3. Since Microsoft makes Internet Explorer which displays HTML, it is presumed that this would be known. With respect to appellants' comment about MPEP § 2144.03, it is noted that a traverse of a finding of Official Notice requires more than just a statement that the fact is not supported by a reference. A "traverse" is "[a] formal denial of a factual allegation in the opposing party's pleading," Black's Law Dictionary (7th ed. 1999). That is, a traverse is similar to answering the factual allegations in a complaint in a civil action. Cf. Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(b) ("A party shall . . . admit or - 3 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007