Appeal No.2004-1526
Application No. 09/354,052
database,” appellant points to no claim language requiring this
interpretation. The term “like association” has a broad, plain
meaning, which is encompassed by the examiner’s assertion of
Business News and Business Resources having a “like association”
simply because they are both related to business.
With regard to claims 9, 21, and 32, appellant argues that
these claims refer to search criteria that is “independent of
content source and type” and that text documents and graphics, as
in Vora, do not meet this criteria (brief-page 13). But, the
examiner explains, and we agree, that Vora’s first search request
is performed through information sources stored in mass memory
17, and that the text documents stored therein include two types,
i.e., text and graphics. Since the first search request is
performed in mass memory 17, it is searched through text
documents, including graphics, so that the first search request
“is independent of content source and type” (answer-page 7,
referring to column 7, lines 4-10, and column 6, lines 35-40, of
Vora).
Appellant’s assertion that text and graphics are “not of
different source or type” (brief-page 9) is unpersuasive. It is
clear to us that text typically refers to a written word, while
graphics typically refers to an image, something different than
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