Appeal No. 1998-2462
Application No. 08/548,696
Ausnit discloses using a fastener 15,17, to hold the
bottom of a bag closed during filling of the bag. Thus,
Ausnit is not relevant to the claim limitation of holding the
interior surfaces of the empty bag together. Furthermore,
Ausnit fails to suggest a modification of Causley that would
allow the sides to be held together without platform 174, as
required by the claim.
In addition, Causley fails to disclose coupling the
container to a reservoir of an ink-jet pen and moving ink from
the container to the coupled reservoir. Causley states
(column 3, lines 63-66) that the ink flows from inside the ink
container 16 to the outside of the cartridge, from which the
ink is delivered to an ink jet head. Nowhere does Causley
mention a reservoir. As neither Ausnit nor Larkin relates to
an ink-jet printer, the combination fails to disclose the
steps of coupling the container to a reservoir and moving ink
to the reservoir. Accordingly, as the three references do not
disclose all elements of the claimed invention, the examiner
has failed to establish a prima facie case of obviousness.
Therefore, we cannot sustain the obviousness rejection of
claims 5 through 7.
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