Appeal No. 96-4043
Application 08/235,538
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Okamoto et al. (Okamoto) 3,865,678 Feb. 11, 1975
Tate et al. (Tate) 5,158,118 Oct. 27, 1992
Mizuno 5,219,128 Jun. 15, 1993
(filed Jun. 11, 1992)
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
follows:
a) claim 12 as being unpatentable over Mizuno in view of
Okamoto; and
b) claims 13 and 14 as being unpatentable over Mizuno in
view of Okamoto, and further in view of Tate.
Reference is made to the appellant’s main brief (Paper No.
10) and to the examiner’s decision appealed from (Paper No. 8)
and answer (Paper No. 11) for the respective positions of the
appellant and the examiner with regard to the propriety of these
rejections.3
Mizuno discloses a photographic film cassette having an
elongated film-passage mouth 6. The mouth has a pair of opposed
inner surfaces carrying light-trapping members 7 and 8. These
3The examiner has refused entry of the reply brief (Paper
No. 12) filed by the appellant in response to the answer (see
Paper No. 13). Accordingly, we have not considered the arguments
advanced in the reply brief in reviewing the merits of the
appealed rejections.
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