Appeal No. 96-1928
Application 07/504,679
such were independently realized by the artisan with respect
to Vincent's own teachings and suggestions, we find that it
would have been obvious to the artisan to have utilized
smaller print or smaller size day boxes in the month calendar
or abbreviations for the note data in an effort to accommodate
the note field at the bottom of the calendaring page and
expand it to include more data or to lengthen fields or to
permit more notes to be derived from the Figure 2 showing of
the individual day page. Vincent already teaches, for
example, the use of abbreviations and key symbols in deriving
each day box in the monthly calendar in Figure 1 from the
individual day display in Figure 2. Following these ideas in
our view is more consistent with approaches users of calendars
normally have undertaken generally, particularly those types
of calendars utilized by people for daily and monthly
scheduling of events to permit an expanded note field.
We characterize in another manner the examiner's approach
as being that, from the examiner's view the artisan could have
modified Vincent in light of Heckel's teachings to provide
expanded calendaring of events. This “could have modified”
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