Appeal No. 1999-0595
Application 08/704,186
down to display the calendar of the month which precedes or
follows the month currently shown in the display [column 21,
lines 10-14]. Thus, the cursor keys in Ishii operate to
replace the current calendar with a previous month or a
following month. The currently displayed month is not
retained on the display after this operation. Since the
currently displayed month in Ishii is not retained on the
display, Ishii does not disclose displaying an additional week
in addition to said specific month as recited in claim 1.
In summary, we have found that Ishii does not contain
every limitation of the claimed invention. Therefore, we do
not sustain the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-7 and 10.
We now consider the rejection of claims 8 and 9 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the teachings of
Ishii and Morgan. Morgan was cited to meet specific
limitations of claims 8 and 9. Morgan provides no teachings
which overcome the deficiencies of Ishii discussed above.
Therefore, this rejection improperly relies on Ishii for the
same reasons discussed above. Since the examiner assumed that
Ishii fully met the invention of claim 1, the examiner has not
addressed the actual differences between Ishii and the claimed
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