Ex Parte EDWARDS et al - Page 4




             Appeal No. 2004-1201                                                                                     
             Application No. 09/051,118                                                                               

             claim 57 and adds Krasle as to claim 73.                                                                 
                    Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the examiner,                              
             reference is made to the brief and reply brief for the appellants’ positions,                            
             and to the answer for the examiner’s positions.                                                          


                                              OPINION                                                               
                    For the reasons set forth in the principal brief on appeal, we reverse                            
             the nine separately stated rejections of all claims on appeal under                                      
             35 U.S.C. § 103.  The top of page 8 of the principal brief on appeal initially                           
             states the following:                                                                                    
                    The combination fails to teach or suggest retrieving and                                          
                    searching a file for links and then assigning a respective                                        
                    different identifier to each of a plurality of links located from                                 
                    the search of the file for presentation to a user, and a                                          
                    command-based interface for use by the user to input an                                           
                    assigned identifier.                                                                              

             From our study of the principal brief on appeal, the same nutshell-type                                  
             remarks are presented at the middle of page 12 and at the bottom of page                                 
             13 for each respective independent claim 25, 36, 75, 84, 86 and 90 on                                    
             appeal.                                                                                                  
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