Appeal 2007-1595
Application 09/751,858
1 2006, and the Examiner mailed an Examiner’s Answer to the Appeal Brief on
2 August 29, 2006. A Reply Brief was filed on October 24, 2006.
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4 PRIOR ART
5 The prior art references of record relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the
6 appealed claims are:
7 Jensen US 6,065,000 May 16, 2000
8 Donald W. Pfeiffer, Safety Plan Nets Results At Teksid, Foundry Management &
9 Technology, vol. 126, no. 7, p. 28, July 1998
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11 REJECTION
12 Claims 1-21 and 27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over
13 Jensen and Pfeiffer.
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15 ISSUES
16 The Examiner found that Jensen discloses a system for facilitating statistical
17 analysis of events, including a first input device operable to receive raw data
18 regarding the events, including the nature, place, time, and date of each event, and
19 convert the raw data into formatted data having a suitable electronic format; a
20 memory storage device operable to store the formatted data; a code segment
21 operable to perform date gap analysis and control chart analysis on the formatted
22 data to produce an analysis output; a display device operable to display the analysis
23 output; and a second input device operable to allow a user to request a more
24 specific analysis of at least one identified event, with the identified event being
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