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” 9Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007