Appeal No. 2006-1790
Application No. 10/042,030
modified by the user so that when the received document is received again, the new
default settings by the user will cause the document attributes to be in accordance with
the user preferences.
Therefore, we will sustain the rejection of claim 1, and of claims 2, 4, 5-10, 12-14,
and 16-21, which are argued together with claim 1 (see pages 10-12 of the principal
brief) under 35 U.S.C. §103.
Turning to claims 3 and 15, these claims require that the document component
comprise a background color and the step of modifying the attribute comprises
removing the background image from the document.
The examiner identifies APA, page 2, lines 6-9, as teaching that the document
component may comprise a background image, and IE as selecting a box to ignore the
color specified on Web pages, thus removing a background image from the document,
as claimed.
Appellants argue that a background color, removable in IE, is not the same as a
background image. We disagree. A broad, but fair, interpretation of a background
image would also comprise the background color as this defines the “image” of the
background. The background “image” being totally blue is a different “image” than the
background image being totally white, for example.
Thus, we will sustain the rejection of claims 3 and 15 under 35 U.S.C. §103.
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