Appeal No. 97-2626
Application 08/234,502
(1986).
b) Claims 50, 52, 58, 60, and 63-65 have been
rejected as being unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over
Narita ‘93 in view of Narita ‘92 and further in view of
Hasegawa.
Narita ‘93
9. Narita ‘93 generally teaches a device for
preventing the accidental opening of a cassette cover.
10. The examiner alleges that Narita ‘93 shows in
figures 1-6 a means for blocking (9) an object having a width
less than a correct width, a means for urging (8) the object
towards one side, a means for detecting (11) a correct width,
and a means for disabling (discontinue blocking) 10 if a
correct width is detected. (Examiner’s Answer, page 6).
The examiner’s rationale
11. According to the examiner, the subject matter of
claims 49, 51, 57, 59, 61, and 62 would have been obvious
within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Narita ‘93 (id. at
7). The examiner reasons that it is well known in the art of
storage cassette devices “to have a one dimensional task be
performed equivalently as a two dimensional task”, and that
therefore it would have been obvious to modify the Narita ‘93
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