Appeal No. 97-0048
Application No. 08/292,186
playback units and Hafner discloses coding information on a
medicine package for presentation to a user on a display), but we
are unconvinced by any cogent rationale by the examiner as to the
obviousness of combining these teachings in such a manner as to
arrive at the instant claimed subject matter which requires a
specific interconnection of these elements or specifically
sequenced steps causing the production of audible speech signals
which identify the contents of medication in a container in
response to placing the container, with its attached housing
which contains a memory, together with the playback unit which
houses the loudspeaker. The examiner’s conclusion of obviousness
could only have resulted from the use of impermissible hindsight.
The reference to Sibalis, applied for the teaching of
circular contacts, regarding the limitations of claims 4 and 6,
fails to supply the deficiencies noted supra with regard to the
other references.
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