Appeal No. 2004-2250
Application No. 09/542,154
obviousness presented by the Examiner, Appellants have failed to
offer any convincing arguments to show any error in the
Examiner’s position. Additionally, arguments not made are
waived. See 37 CFR § 41.37(c)(1)(vii).
Appellants argue that while Kikinis is used for teaching a
wireless point-to-point communication system, Brown allows
tailoring the toolbar only for accessing public content (suppl.
brief, page 4). Appellants further assert that the proposed
rejection lacks a showing of a positive suggestion for such prior
art combination (suppl. brief, page 5) since Namma and Humpleman
do not suggest the combination for the reason of security and
convenience (suppl. brief, page 6). Appellants’ arguments
apparently redirect us back to Brown and how private and user-
specific content is not considered in the reference (id.).
The Examiner refers to column 1, lines 49-54 of Brown
describing the benefits of using toolbars as one-click shortcuts
to their corresponding commands (answer, page 14) while their
functions may be customized by changing those commands (answer,
page 15). These modifications to the functions associated with a
button, as taught by Namma and Humpleman, include modifications
to the source and content of the data feed for accessing private
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