Appeal No. 98-0003
Application No. 08/601,896
by the second amendment filed subsequent to the final
rejection, which has not been entered.
The § 103 rejection based on
Ouwerkerk, Karakane and Einhaus
(rejection (b))
Claim 15 is directed to a system including the cartridge
and holder combination of claim 1 and a scanning device, with
the cartridge having locating apertures and the scanning
device having locating pins for cooperation with the locating
apertures of the cartridge.
In rejecting this claim, the examiner states on page 4 of
the answer that Ouwerkerk does not disclose locating pins on
the scanning device, as recited in claim 15. The examiner
then goes on to make findings with respect to Einhaus.
However, the examiner does not point out how Einhaus makes up
for the locating pin deficiency of Ouwerkerk. Finally, the
examiner concludes that it would have been obvious in view of
Einhaus “to provide a disc-record player with locating pins .
. .” (answer, page 5).
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