Appeal 2007-1105
Application 09/731,912
1 system … [for editing] template information or formatting information
2 stored within the electronic document” as required by claim 1?
3 FINDINGS OF FACT
4 1. Appellant invented a system, method, and computer readable
5 medium for editing group-editable electronic documents
6 (Specification 1:5-6). Specifically, Appellant’s group editing is of layout or
7 format. (Specification 2:16)
8 2. Appellant admits that with Sparrow, “the page author can
9 change the layout of such a page, or the format of its items, by reading the
10 page into a text editor or HTML authoring tool and making edits to the
11 overall page.” (Specification 2:7-9).
12 3. The prior art Chang reference describes the claimed
13 group-editable web page editing system, in the form of in-place editing of
14 Sparrow community-shared web page documents. (Chang’s Title, p. 1).
15 4. The Chang reference further describes the claimed an element
16 selection device that selects a portion of an electronic document, wherein the
17 selected portion includes information stored within the electronic document,
18 in the form of clicking on a black triangle (p. 3, ll. 2-3 and Figure 2). The
19 information selected in Chang is content information.
20 5. The Chang reference further describes the claimed an editing
21 device that determines an edit user interface and allows editing of the
22 selected portion through the edit user interface, wherein the edit user
23 interface allows editing of information of the selected portion, in the form of
24 an editable item (p. 4, ll. 1-3). The information edited in Chang is content
25 information.
5
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next
Last modified: September 9, 2013