Appeal Number: 2006-3321
Application Number: 09/843,381
NEW GROUND OF REJECTION UNDER 37 CFR § 41.50(b)
Pursuant to 37 CFR § 41.50(b), we enter the following new ground of
rejection:
Independent claims 1 and 6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
anticipated by Kondo.
Kondo shows
(a) preparing customisable consumer products according to available
selections made by a consumer of one or more components of those
consumer products having product characteristics chosen by the
consumer,
(b) optionally reconstituting those components with one or more other
components, and
(c) dispensing from a vending system at a point-of-sale of those
consumer products
in the Summary of Invention Col. 2, line 40 – Col. 3 line 39:
It is an object of this invention to provide an automatic vending
machine wherein different varieites [sic] of ground coffee powders or
of coffee beans are stored separately and a straight coffee of any one
of the varieties and a blended coffee of any combination of the
varieties [sic] can be served as requested.
It is another object of this invention to provide such an automatic
vending machine wherein coffee concentration can be selected as
desired.
It is still another object of this invention to provide such an automatic
vending machine wherein cream and/or sugar can be mixed to the
coffee as desired.
According to this invention, an automatic coffee vending machine can
be obtained which comprises a plurality of chambers for storing
coffee materials of different varieties, respectively, and a plurality of
means for discharging the coffee materials from the plurality of
chambers, respectively. Powders of the coffee materials discharged by
the discharging means are introduced into a coffee extractor by an
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