Appeal 2007-0645
Application 10/242,898
1 pages 3 through 6 of the Answer. Throughout the opinion we make reference to
2 the Brief and Reply Brief (filed March 13, 2006 and August 4, 2006 respectively),
3 and the Answer (mailed June 5, 2006) for the respective details thereof.
4 ISSUES
5 Appellants contend that the Examiner’s rejection based upon Prompt in view
6 of Sitka under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) is in error. Specifically, Appellants argue that
7 while Sitka discloses that the DSM server provides for security access, Sitka does
8 not “disclose or suggest a document vault database storing information regarding
9 whether a user is authorized to access a document file or providing a user access to
10 a document file via a web server based upon the information regarding whether the
11 user is authorized to access the document file, as required by claim 1.” (Br. 5)
12 The Examiner contends that the rejection is proper. The Examiner states
13 that “Sitka teaches ‘security manager 38 interfaces to a DSM security database’ -
14 col. 11, lines 40-57 (the security database and algorithm portion providing access
15 to information regarding whether the user is authorized to access the documents
16 and preventing unauthorized access - col. 9, lies [sic] 37-67).” (Answer 9)
17 Initially, we note that Appellants’ arguments on pages 5 through 7 of the
18 Brief recite limitations in independent claims 6, 12, and 18, and broadly state that
19 the limitations are not taught by the references. Appellants’ arguments directed to
20 these claims do not provide any specificity as to how the limitations are to be
21 interpreted and differentiate from the art, other than what is argued for claim 1.
22 37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii) states “[a] statement which merely points out what a
23 claim recites will not be considered an argument for separate patentability of the
24 claim.” Thus, we do not consider claims 6, 12, and 18 to be separately argued.
25 Further, Appellants have presented no arguments directed to dependent claims
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