Appeal No. 1999-1625
Application No. 08/792,468
section 101 further includes . . . a scanner 57 . . . a
communication section 53. See Appellants' disclosure page 54,
lines 7-11. Also disclosed by Appellants is that
[i]n order to prevent, in the POS system which employs
the scanning cart 100 of such construction . . . such
an unjust act of a customer accommodates as to
accommodate a commodity into the basket member 102
without performing a reading of the commodity code . .
. a control system of the scanning cart 100 and control
section 60 are constructed in such a manner as shown in
FIGS. 7 to 9.
See Appellants' disclosure page 55 line 25 to page 56 line
7. Also disclosed is that "an unjust act that customer
accommodates a commodity 50 into the basket member 102 . . .
without performing scanning intentionally can be prevented."
See Appellants' disclosure page 63 lines 22-27. The only
disclosure of purchasing structure being fixed to the cart is
figure 10 which simply shows the structures 53-57 being on the
cross bar of the cart 100. Therefore, we find that the claimed
term "permanently fixed" is anything that attaches the purchasing
structure to the cart.
We find that Collins discloses commodity code reading
section (98), a prepaid card inputting processing section (88
and/or 90), a commodity price retrieval section and a data
updating section (102, 104, 106, 80, 110) which are permanently
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