Appeal No. 2003-1234
Application 09/755,519
THE REFERENCES
The examiner relies on the following references:
Bissonet 3,839,960 October 8, 1974
Eckels 4,452,142 June 5, 1984
THE REJECTION
We refer to the final rejection (Paper No. 7) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the examiner's answer (Paper No. 10)
(pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the rejection,
and to the appeal brief (Paper No. 9) (pages referred to as
"Br__") and reply brief (Paper No. 11) (pages referred to as
"RBr__") for a statement of appellant's arguments thereagainst.
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Bissonet and Eckels. The examiner finds that
"Bissonet teaches a method of taking notes in which a student
attending a lecture in which there are numerous occasions in
which one has to write down and print the same data repeatedly
can use a stamp to easily print that data. See column 1,
lines 6-47 and Figures 1-2 and 16-17 in particular" (FR2). The
examiner finds that is inherent in the process of taking notes to
listen and make notes and concludes that "it would have been
obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to stamp those
data/symbols in response to the lecturer's comments using a hand
stamp as taught by Bissonet in their notes to facilitate quick
and neat note-taking" (FR2). The examiner finds that Bissonet
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