Appeal No. 1998-0918
Application 08/314,451
management system which provides for the entry of notes before
a call is made. The examiner asserts that it would have been
obvious to the artisan to include Norwood’s information
management system with the telephone note taking system of
Putnam to allow the editing of notes without requiring that a
telephone number be called [id.].
Appellant argues that the collective teachings of
Putnam and Norwood “neither teach nor suggest note inputting
means for accepting notes entered by the user before an
outgoing telephone call is initiated, and automatically
commencing operation, so as to accept the notes, sequentially
after a party designating/inputting means starts operation but
before the user, through a selecting means, commands the
device to initiate the telephone call” [brief, page 9].
Although the examiner acknowledges that the operation
of each of Putnam and Norwood requires that the user make a
manual selection to effect the note taking function, the
examiner finds these manual selections to be within the
claimed automatic operation [answer, pages 7-8 and 10].
We agree with the position argued by appellant for
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