Appeal No. 2003-0360
Application No. 08/947,032
The examiner uses the example of a date as an attribute in
Blandford, but Blandford does not use the date of the diary entry
as an “archiving condition” to determine whether the document is
to be archived nor is there any electronic analysis of the date
of the diary entry to determine if the date (attribute) satisfies
an archiving condition.
Still further, the examiner asserts that it would have been
obvious to have a skilled programmer compose “formulas” for
relative reference dates for archiving the document but we think
appellants make a good point when they urge that
. . .there would be no need to modify Blandford
in order to have “skilled programmers compose
formulae for relative reference dates for
archiving the document” as suggested by the
Office Action. Furthermore, Blandford already
discloses the ability to determine the date
which a data block is created in order to prevent
archiving of a data block which has allegedly
been created prior to a previously stored data
block. This feature in Blandford prevents
modifications or the addition of diary entries
after the fact. . . (principal brief-page 6).
Blandford discloses an electronic diary wherein diary
entries are archived in such a manner that modification of those
entries can be identified and removed or restored to recreate the
corresponding original entries. Other than “archiving”
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