Appeal No. 2004-1201 Application No. 09/051,118 across all stated rejections of the claims on appeal admits that Dolan does not specifically teach two key features recited in each claim on appeal, that of assigning a different identifier to a link and selecting an identifier from among different presented identifiers assigned to the link presented for selection. We agree with appellants’ views expressed initially at pages 9 and 10 of the principal brief on appeal that Kogan actually fails to teach or suggest that which is asserted by the examiner to make up for the deficiencies of Dolan. Because we essentially agree with appellants’ views at pages 9 and 10 of the principal brief on appeal, we reproduce them here: Kogan discloses selecting an “anchor” using user command. Kogan states that the exact nature of the command is not relevant and will most frequently be a pointing device such as a mouse. (See footnote 2 in col. 8 of Kogan). Appellant submits that Kogan thus fails to remedy Dolan’s deficiency of failing to teach a “command-based interface” for inputting identifiers. One of ordinary skill in the art would not have been even motivated to look at Kogan for a teaching as to what might useful in -6-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007