Appeal No. 97-0048
Application No. 08/292,186
playback unit is employed for producing the speech sounds for
identifying the contents of the medication container.
The examiner also relied on Moore. Moore discloses a
medicine dispenser which permits dispensing a plurality of
different medicines by having separate compartments for holding
individual medicines. As the user gains access to a particular
compartment, a sound means for selectively broadcasting an
audible description of the medicine dose within that compartment
is activated. There is a sound playback means associated with
each compartment. Moore discloses, at column 5, lines 5-10, that
the sound means
may include typical tape recorder means or the like for
allowing an audible description, etc., of each particular
medicine dose to be selectively recorded or digitized by
speaking into a microphone M and played back through a
speaker S.
Thus, Moore clearly suggests employing speech sound for
describing a particular medicine dose in a particular compartment
within a medicine dispenser.
However, while Moore does suggest the use of audible speech
in conjunction with a medicine dispenser, we find no cogent
rationale by the examiner, nor do we know of any, as to why or
how Moore is to be combined with the other cited references,
notably Schollmeyer. It is unclear as to how the loudspeaker of
Moore is to be applied in the Schollmeyer system which employs
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