Appeal No. 1997-2986
Application No. 08/260,784
of "identifying for each production run the program routines
in accordance with those programmed operations pieces of
different dimensions are to be cut from said worksheets." The
"identifying" limitations of claims 12 and 21 are satisfied in
the same way. Levine's listing of the patterns in a job lot
satisfies claim 1's step of "retrieving from each of said
program routines data relating to said to be cut pieces." The
"retrieving" limitation of claim 12 is satisfied in the same
way. While claim 21 more particularly specifies that the
retrieved data "includ[es] the respective dimensions of all
pieces to be cut from worksheets in accordance with said each
program," this would have been obvious because it is necessary
to know which finished pieces are to be stacked by
Taijonlahti's apparatus on conveyors 2 and ultimately on
pallet 7.
The examiner appears to be reading the claimed step of
"utilizing said data retrieved from said program routines to
compute optimal locations at at least one unloading means
where finished pieces of the same dimension cut in accordance
with different ones of said program routines are be moved" on
the
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