Appeal 2007-0039
Application 09/799,413
workstations (Answer 11-12). Again, we agree with the Examiner and note
that Ferrel teaches that both the content object database and the stored
completed project are available to end users, i.e., publishers and customer,
by accessing the data center in the host (FF 3 & 7). Ferrel also provides for
an on-line or web-based MP for creating content in an on-line publishing
and editing system (FF 10).
Appellant contends that Ferrel does not teach or suggest providing
user interface screens with user executable commands, as recited in claim 1
(Br. 9). The Examiner responds by pointing to Ferrel’s teaching of a server
hosting on-line applications (Answer 12) and concludes that the organization
of such system, which have storage and sharing functionalities, are well
known by the skilled artisan (id.). We agree with the Examiner’s arguments
and find that the host database is available to both publishers and users over
the network (FF 5-7). Contrary to Appellant’s argument that only the
publisher workstation has access to the components (Br. 10), Ferrel’s
network, as depicted in Figure 3, allows access to both publishers and users
to host data center 242 (FF 7). We also observe that the publishers are also
users of the database when publishers access the content objects and create a
story.
Thus, in light of these findings, we find that one of ordinary skill in
the art would have found that Ferrel suggests the subject matter recited in
Claim 1, as well as claims 2-7, 9-12, and 16-22, argued together as one
group. See Young, 927 F.2d at 590, 18 USPQ2d at 1091. See also 37 C.F.R.
§ 41.37(c)(1)(vii).
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