Appeal No. 97-0064
Application No. 08/286,785
concerning the pill and also a method and device for retrieving
the information from the micro barcode. 2 Claims 1 and 5 are
illustrative of the claimed invention, and they read as follows:
1. A pill on which is imprinted micro barcode, said micro
barcode containing information pertaining to any one of
medication contents of the pill and source identification of the
pill.
5. A device for retrieving information encoded on a micro
barcode imprinted on a pill and indicating the retrieved
information to a user, comprising:
means for scanning the micro barcode on the pill to retrieve
information encoded in the micro barcode;
means for interpreting the scanned micro barcode; and
means responsive to results of interpretation by said
interpreting means for indicating information encoded in the
micro barcode in a manner understandable to the user.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Wittwer 4,478,658 Oct. 23, 1984
Shamir 5,118,369 Jun. 02, 1992
Aurenius3 5,129,974 Jul. 14, 1992
Claims 1 through 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Wittwer in view of Shamir or Aurenius.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 15,
mailed June 27, 1996) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
2 Appellants may find U.S. Patent 5,700,998 to Palti to be
of interest.
3 Since the disclosures of Shamir and Aurenius are virtually
the same, only Shamir will be discussed in this opinion.
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