Appeal No. 1996-3709
Application 07/980,221
feeding only the topmost sheet from the cassette of Ohsawa et
al. can be used to feed the copy sheets from the cassette of
Tabuchi in lieu of the single roller 15 shown by Tabuchi in
the same manner that appellant’s claimed supplying roller,
conveying rollers and friction pad feeds the topmost sheet in
his cassette (i.e., from left to right) ... .”
Appellant argues [brief, page 16] that “there is no
suggestion in the art to make the proposed combination to
address the problems remedied by the Appellant’s invention.”
Appellant further argues [brief, pages 16 to 24 and reply
brief, pages 6 to 8] that none of the applied references shows
any teaching, explicit or implicit, to combine these
references.
We are of the opinion that the Examiner has earnestly
attempted to piece together a rejection, using bits and pieces
from the various references. It appears to us that the
Examiner is indulging in reconstructing the prior art to come
up with the
claimed invention and is using the invention as a blueprint in
so doing. That is not allowed within the meaning of 35 U.S.C.
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