Appeal No. 98-0003
Application No. 08/601,896
remaining in the application, has been indicated by the
examiner as being allowable if rewritten in independent form
to include all of the limitations of the base claim. Two
amendments have been filed subsequent to the final rejection.
The first (Paper No. 12), filed March 7, 1997, has been
entered. The second (Paper No. 15), filed April 17, 1997, has
been denied entry.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a support (element 1 in 2
appellant’s drawings) for accommodating an information
containing disc (element 19) during both a storage mode, and
an operational, or scanning, mode in a playback or recording
device, without requiring the disc to be removed from the
support. Also disclosed is a holder (element 3 in appellant’s
drawings) for use with the support when the disc is in a
storage mode. Independent claim 1, a copy of which is found
in the aforementioned first amendment (i.e., the amendment
filed March 7, 1997), is illustrative of the appealed subject
matter.
2This element is also termed a “cartridge” in the appealed
claims.
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