Ex Parte George - Page 3

            Appeal Number: 2007-0133                                                                         
            Application Number: 10/223,466                                                                   

            been interpreted by case law, (ii) they seek to patent an abstract idea, and (iii) the           
            useful, concrete, and tangible result test does not apply here, but, even if it did, the         
            claims nevertheless do not meet that test                                                        
                                                  FACTS                                                      

                Claim 1 is as follows:                                                                       
                   1.  A method of predicting sleep and activity levels, comprising                          
                   providing a chart, providing lines and shapes representing personal                       
                   daily wake drives and a sleep drive, providing on the chart indications                   
                   of time of day at a starting location, providing on the chart indications                 
                   of time of day at a destination location, displaying on the chart                         
                   personal daily wake drives and sleep drives related to the time of day                    
                   at the starting location and the time of day at the destination.                          

                Claim 35 is as follows:                                                                      
                   35.  A method for predicting and planning activity levels after rapid                     
                   changes in time zones comprising providing representations of wake                        
                   drives in relation to representations of time of day at destination and                   
                   time zones east and west and providing representations of wake nadirs                     
                   at lower portions of the wake drive curve, slopes and arrows leading                      
                   and pointing toward the wake nadirs representing respectively photo                       
                   zones west and east and effects of exposure to light during times of                      
                   the photo zones.                                                                          

                The Specification teaches use of the charts by moving parts of a chart.  The                 
            Specification does not recite how to translate the chart representations into                    
            predictions of sleep and activity levels after moving parts of the chart, although the           
            Specification provides general advice on sleep and nap times.  Neither claims 1 nor              
            35 recite moving parts of a chart, nor do they recite a step that results in the                 
            preamble prediction or planning, nor do they recite anything having to do with                   

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