Ex parte HECKEL et al. - Page 9




          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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