Appeal 2007-0458
Application 10/247,533
on references that happen to anticipate the claimed subject matter. In re
Meyer, 599 F.2d 1026, 1031, 202 USPQ 175, 179 (CCPA 1979).
Moreover, we sustain the Examiner’s obviousness rejection based on the
teachings of Yagasaki alone since we may rely on fewer references than the
Examiner in affirming a multiple-reference rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
(noting that EAST is available to the public in the USPTO Public Search
Facility).
Specifically, in EAST, the user can select individual terms of a text search
query to highlight when displaying the search results. Such a feature enables
the user to dictate specifically which terms of the query will be highlighted
when reviewing the search results.
For example, for the text search query “CAT AND DOG,” the user can
select either search term (“CAT” or “DOG”) to highlight from a dropdown
menu. This selective highlighting feature is shown in a screenshot from
EAST as shown in Figure 1 below:
Figure 1: Screenshot from EAST Showing Selective Highlighting Feature
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