Appeal No. 2004-2250
Application No. 09/542,154
prior art references to arrive at the claimed invention. See
also In re Rouffet, 149 F.3d 1350, 1355, 47 USPQ2d 1453, 1456
(Fed. Cir. 1998). However, the motivation, suggestion or
teaching may come explicitly from statements in the prior art,
the knowledge of one of ordinary skill in the art, or, in some
cases the nature of the problem to be solved. See In re
Dembiczak, 175 F.3d 994, 999, 50 USPQ2d 1614, 1617 (Fed. Cir.
1999).
Although Brown uses public content as the data associated
with the toolbar buttons, one of ordinary skill in the art would
have looked into other sources of data such as those taught in
Namma and Humpleman. The icon associated with the live video
feed from a dwelling in Namma provides access to the content fed
through the server from a camera (col. 23, lines 29-36) which
suggests such types of private content for control and
observation of the dwelling. Humpleman, similarly suggests other
sources for providing private content to the user by associating
the link to a consumer appliance (col. 18, ,lines 1-5). Thus,
the Examiner has pointed to sufficient teaching and suggestion in
the references to show that one of ordinary skill in the art
would have been led to look into other sources of data for
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