Appeal No. 2004-1201
Application No. 09/051,118
relies upon the same assertions made with respect to the statement of the
rejection of the claims on appeal. Since our study of columns 7 and 8 of
Kogan are consistent with the remarks we quoted earlier in this opinion
from appellants’ principal brief on appeal as to the teachings pertinent
through Figures 5-7 of Kogan, we must reverse the rejection of each
independent claim on appeal.
As noted by appellants in the principal brief on appeal, from our
review of Kogan, we must conclude that this reference does not teach that
a link identifier is presented to the user according to the earlier noted
requirements of each independent claim on appeal, since any such link
identifier may be properly construed within Kogan as being an internal
identification system and not one presented to the user of the system
while, at the same time, there is no essential unique assignment of
respectively different identifiers in Kogan to each of a plurality of links, an
additional requirement of each independent claim on appeal. The same
link name or identifier is shared among a plurality of anchors within the
context of the system of representations of links in Kogan.
Since at least two essential requirements of each independent claim
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