Appeal No. 2000-0513
Application 08/803,047
Thus, the examiner’s reading of claims 1, 16 and 29 on
Fry is not well taken. Therefore, we shall not sustain the
standing 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection of claims 1, 16 and 29,
or of claims 2 through 4, 7, 8, 10 through 12, 15, 17 through
19, 22, 23, 25 through 27 and 30 through 32 which depend
therefrom, as being anticipated by Fry.
II. The 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection of claims 1, 9, 11, 14,
16, 24 and 26 as being anticipated by Thurman.
Thurman discloses a pharmaceutical dispensing case
comprising a cabinet 1 rotatably mounted on a base 2 and a
table 8 hingedly mounted on vertical members 7 of a rack 5
which is retractable with respect to the cabinet. The cabinet
includes shelves 11 for drugs, drawers 12 for drugs or
instruments and index card drawers 13 for keeping accounts or
clinical histories. The base includes additional drawers 14.
From the examiner’s perspective, claims 1, 9, 11, 14, 16,
24 and 26 read on Thurman because
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