Appeal No. 1999-1488
Application 08/630,332
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the following combina-
tions of references:
(1) Claims 1 to 3, Lang in view of Yamamoto and Suzuki;
(2) Claims 4 to 7, Lang in view of Yamamoto, Suzuki and
Okamoto;
(3) Claim 8, Okamoto in view of Suzuki.
Rejection (1)
The basis of this rejection is stated on pages 2 and
3 of the final rejection, and need not be repeated here.
Appellant argues (brief, pages 15 to 16) that Lang's drawer 12
is the hopper, rather than a hopper "of a drawer type having a
drawer" as recited in claim 1, but we perceive no difference
between Lang's drawer 12 and the claimed hopper, since if
drawer 12 is a hopper, it certainly is a hopper "of a drawer
type having a drawer." Appellant also argues that Suzuki's
collecting tray 63 "is not of a drawer type" (brief, page 18);
this argument is not well taken because tray 63 fits into an
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