Appeal No. 96-2278
Application 08/175,001
which teaches or suggests a card holding station where the
image on the card is visible to an operator after the card is
received, or that the apparatus should be configured so that
the image and the displayed representation of that image are
adjacent” [brief, page 4]. The examiner responds that Figure
1 of Axelrod discloses these features [answer, page 3].
We agree with appellants that the invention of claims
1 and 13 is not fully met by the disclosure of Axelrod. There
is clearly no card holding station disclosed in Axelrod so
that there is no disclosure of the image on the card being
visible when the card is received in the card holding station.
Axelrod discloses a bar code scanner for reading the card, but
there is no disclosure of how this card is received in a card
holding station. Although Axelrod teaches that the image on
the card C and the image on display 36 are compared by an
operator, and although Axelrod shows the card C and the
display 36 in close proximity in Figure 1, there is no
disclosure that the comparison should take place while the
card is in the card holding station. Axelrod could just as
easily suggest that the comparison take place after a card is
removed from whatever mechanism is used to hold and decode the
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