Appeal No. 2000-0513
Application 08/803,047
storage, display and ordering merchandising unit comprising,
inter alia, a “collection bin for receiving filled order
envelopes” and “a pair of display sections for displaying of
photographic merchandise.” For the reasons explained above,
the examiner’s determination that these limitations read on
Fry’s coin hopper 62 and doors 2, respectively, is not well
founded.3
Independent claim 29 recites a combined photofinishing
storage, display and ordering merchandising unit comprising,
inter alia, “a pair of display sections for displaying of
merchandise.” Given the other limitations in this claim, the
examiner finds it necessary to read the claim language
relating to the pair of display sections on Fry’s plunger
handles 60 (see page 3 in the answer). Suffice to say that
like doors 2, handles 60 do not inherently constitute display
sections of the sort recited in claim 29.
3 While Fry’s display pockets 55 arguably might constitute
display sections of the sort recited in claim 16, the Fry
machine still has no apparent structure responding to the
“collection bin” limitation.
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