Appeal No. 2006-1134
Application No. 10/002,438
as the scroll bar positions for locating a portion of a displayed
page to be sufficiently reasonable to support a prima facie case
of obviousness.
Contrary to Appellants’ assertion that since Brisebois
bookmarks Web pages for accessing the portion of the page that
was displayed at the time of bookmarking, there is no need for
using font attributes (brief, page 7), we observe that resizing
the display window to the stored dimensions (WX, WY) involves
selecting and storing a particular font type and size for the
text within the resized display window and constitute font
attributes. As such, the fact that Littlefield stores font
attributes within a Web page that displays search results does
not diminish the value of its suggestion for storing font
attributes in combination with the enhanced bookmarking method of
Brisebois where the scroll box positions must define a particular
section of the displayed text. A motivation to combine prior art
references may be found in the nature of the problem to be
solved. Ruiz v. A.B. Chance Co., 357 F.3d 1270, 1276, 69 USPQ2d
1686,1690 (Fed. Cir. 2004). Also, evidence of a suggestion,
teaching, or motivation to modify a reference may flow from the
prior art references themselves, the knowledge of one of ordinary
skill in the art, or, in some cases, from the nature of the
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