Appeal No. 1997-2316
Application No. 08/329,616
All of the claims on appeal require the disk loading
device tray to have at least one circular positioning recess
and a rectangular positioning recess. The circular
positioning recess holds a circular disk, and the rectangular
positioning recess holds a disk cartridge. The diameter of
the disk in the disk cartridge has a smaller diameter than the
diameter of the circular positioning recess.
The examiner is of the opinion (Answer, page 4) that the
combined teachings of Suzuki ‘962 and Suzuki ‘465 would result
in a “single tray with multiple recesses to hold a plurality
of discs.” Inasmuch as Suzuki ‘465 teaches the use of a tray
with a plurality of disk cartridges or a tray with a plurality
of disks, the combined teachings of the two Suzuki references
would have only suggested the use of two trays, as in Suzuki
‘962, with a plurality of disks in one of the trays and a
plurality of disk cartridges in the other tray (Brief, page
7). For this reason, the obviousness rejection of claims 1
and 3 through 18 based upon the teachings of Suzuki ‘962 and
Suzuki ‘465 is reversed.
Turning to the obviousness rejection based upon the
teachings of Suzuki ‘961 and Suzuki ‘465, appellants argue
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