Appeal No. 2006-2208
Application No. 10/782,265
Wasilewski, Isoe and Brodsky in combination with Sampsell, Chang
and Encyclopedia Britannica Online article nor of claims 10-17
over Thomsen and IBM-TDB in combination with Patterson, Allport,
Encyclopedia Britannica Online article and O’Brien.
CONCLUSION
In view of the foregoing, the decision of the Examiner
rejecting claims 1-17 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
We make the following new ground of rejection for claim 1
under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Yen1 pursuant to
37 CFR § 41.50(b). We only consider this claim, but encourage
the Examiner to further consider the remaining claims for other
possible rejections over Yen alone or in combination with other
prior art references.
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Yen.
Yen relates to a method and system for receiving information from multiple
sources and interactively presenting the information to a recipient (abstract; col. 3, lines
1 Yen et al. (Yen), U.S. Patent No. 5,991,799, issued Nov. 23, 1999, a
copy of which accompanies this decision.
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