Appeal No. 2006-1134
Application No. 10/002,438
OPINION
In rejecting the claims, the Examiner relies on Brisebois
for teaching the process of bookmarking a section of a Web page
including storing a current window size and the positions of the
scroll boxes (answer, page 5). The Examiner further relies on
Littlefield for storing the font attribute information and
concludes that displaying the text items of the Web page using
its font attributes would have been obvious (answer, pages 5-6).
Appellants concede that Brisebois teaches displaying a
section of a Web page using the X,Y coordinates of the portion of
text that was displayed (brief, page 7). However, Appellants
argue that since Brisebois displays the desired section without
the use of font attributes, there is no reason for one of
ordinary skill in the art to combine the teachings of Littlefield
with those of Brisebois (id.). Appellants further point out that
there is no reason for combining the references since Littlefield
is directed to techniques for delivering search results while
Brisebois relates to a method of bookmarking a Web page (brief,
sentence bridging pages 7 & 8).
In response to Appellants’ arguments, the Examiner asserts
that Littlefield is relied on for teaching a process for
navigation through Web pages by storing the font attribute
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