Appeal No. 2006-0653
Application 09/211,337
to files and folders separately, the additional requirement of
each independent claim of the folder or file operation being
perform only on the folder containing the at least one image,
stylesheet or object referenced in a respective file or folder
(independent claims 1, 7, 21 and 22) would not result. The same
may be said of independent claims 24 and 30 even though these
claims additionally require that the file is not stored within a
folder and the folder is not stored within the file, thus
suggesting that both are located in different directories.
According to the disclosed and claimed invention, it is the
linked relationship of the actual data within the respective
files and folders that is the key to the claimed functionality
and not the fact that they may be in the same directory.
From our study of Chang, the secondary reference relied upon
by the examiner, it appears that this reference does not provide
for these noted deficiencies of Mangosoft. The synchronization
operations between different devices in Chang is not detailed to
the extent as to teach or suggest the folder operation that
corresponds to a file operation and vice versa for example.
Chang does not appear to teach or describe files with
corresponding folders that contain items referenced by the files,
and likewise for the folders. As such, even if we conclude that
the artisan would have combined the teachings of Mangosoft with
Chang, the invention set forth in independent claims 1, 7, 21 and
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