Appeal No. 97-0903
Application No. 08/266,865
resulted from an obvious combination of the teachings of the
six cited references.
Appellants argue that the “causing” and “exposing”
limitations recited in the last paragraph of claim 1 are
missing from all of the patents relied on by the examiner, and
therefore, there is no teaching or suggestion of the “print
information set means” as recited in claim 1 [brief, page 6].
We note that the references cited by the examiner
basically fall into one of two groups of teachings. Taniguchi
’201, Taniguchi ’006 and Hata all teach the concept of placing
a code on a frame of film to direct a printer how to print the
exposed film. Taniguchi ’201 places a reference mark (12)
outside the exposed portion of the film frame [Figure 9].
Taniguchi ’006 places a plurality of marks (CO , CO , CO ,1 2 3
etc.) outside the exposed portion of the film frame [Figure
14]. Hata places a reference mark (38a) outside the exposed
portion of the film frame [Figure 10]. Thus, each of these
three references teaches the placement of a machine-readable
code outside the exposed area of the film frame.
Hattori, Lapeyre and Itabashi all teach the concept of
exposing information to be printed on an exposed portion of
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