Appeal No. 2006-1790
Application No. 10/042,030
The examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to use the properties of
IE to modify the color of text and background in order to improve the view of a
document, as claimed.
Appellants take a different view. Appellants concede that Web pages existed,
prior to the invention, that included background images, background colors, and text
colors. They do not concede, however, that recognition of the problem associated with
background images, background colors, and text colors existed in the prior art (page 10
of the principal brief). If that problem was known, they argue that the manner in which
they solved the problem did not exist in the prior art.
Appellants argue that “no method, apparatus, or computer program product in
the prior art, admitted or otherwise, clarifies a document based on a set of loaded user
preferences responsive to selection of a clarification control” (page 10-principal brief).
Appellants note that IE permits the configuration, by a user, of background
colors, text colors, and link colors, but contends that this feature is a graphical user
interface (GUI) for allowing the user to set preferences for the Web browser, but once
changes are made to the configurations and the user selects “OK,” the preferences are
set and these settings are always applied to Web pages when IE displays those Web
pages. Appellants compare this with the present invention which clarifies a document in
response to activation of a clarification control, so that a document is retrieved and
presented and, in response to activation of a clarification control, the presently claimed
invention modifies an attribute of a component of the Web page to clarify the display of
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