Appeal No. 1998-0252
Application No. 08/555,795
causes the searcher to go through many such files in order to
obtain the correct one. The appellant seeks to improve upon
the prior art systems by his inventive method, which utilizes
as its main set the month and day of the associated
individual’s birth, and as a subset the initial of the
individual’s last name. The professed advantages of such a
system in reducing errors and lost time are set forth on pages
2-7 of the specification.
As manifested in independent method claim 11, the
appellant’s inventive system comprises the steps of affixing
to each file a first sticker indicating a month and a second
sticker indicating a year of the individual’s birth, affixing
to each file a third sticker bearing a letter initial of the
last name of the individual, with the first and second
stickers preceding the third sticker, and placing the files in
a main set corresponding to the first and second stickers and
a subset corresponding to the third sticker. The examiner
notes that systems utilizing both alphabetical and numerical
bases for filing systems were admitted by the appellant as
being known in the art, and then points out that Colavito
teaches that it was known to use coded stickers affixed to a
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