Appeal No. 96-3561
Application No. 08/045,241
While Hayden is not explicit as to what change the shape
of the icon may take, it is clearly suggested by Hayden that
the shape of the icon may change, depending upon the state of
the party. Accordingly, since the “state of the party” may
refer to whether a calling party is on the line or not on the
line, the skilled artisan would have realized that the shape
of the icon may be modified to depict such situations, or a
“state of the party.” If the artisan is going to change the
shape of the telephone icon to represent these states, it
appears to us that the artisan would have been led to provide
for an icon showing the telephone with the receiver on the
cradle for “off line” and an icon of the telephone with the
receiver off the cradle for “on line.” This would have been
the obvious choice of changing the shape of the icon to depict
a different “state of the party.” Since the actual appearance
of the telephone in Hayden would be the receiver on the cradle
when in an off-line condition and the receiver off the cradle
in an on-line condition, Hayden does, indeed, suggest that the
shape of the icon changes when the device is operated in
different operation modes so that “an appearance of the icon
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