Ex Parte Kurabayashi

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Apr 28, 2014

12022583 (P.T.A.B. Apr. 28, 2014)

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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Ex parte NORIYUKI KURABAYASHI
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Appeal 2011-013112
Application 12/022,583
Technology Center 2100
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Before MURRIEL E. CRAWFORD, HUBERT C. LORIN, and MICHAEL
C. ASTORINO, Administrative Patent Judges.

CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judge.

DECISION ON APPEAL
Appeal 2011-013112
Application 12/022,583

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This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) of the final
rejection of claims 1-14.
We have reviewed the Examiner’s rejections in light of Appellant’s
arguments that the Examiner has erred. We concur with Appellant’s
contention that the Examiner erred in finding that Feng teaches a page
creating unit that creates a new page having a tag added to the subject page.
The Examiner relies on the paragraph [0020] of Feng and the disclosure of
the creation of a virtual root web page 151. However, the virtual or
simulated root page 151 is not disclosed as having a tag on the subject page.
We note that although the Examiner finds that different web sites contain
links to the virtual root web page 151, the Examiner has not addressed a
page creating unit that creates a new page having a tag added to the subject
page.
Independent claim 1 requires such a page creating unit and
independent claims 10 and 11 require the step of creating a page having a
tag added thereto.
Accordingly, we will not sustain the Examiner’s rejection of
independent claims 1, 10, and 11, and the rejections of dependent claims 2-
9, and 12-14.

DECISION
The decision of the Examiner to reject claims 1-14 is reversed.

REVERSED

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