Appeal No. 1997-3478
Application 08/397,648
reference to Fujita fails to teach or suggest at least the
feature of a disc cassette and shutter where the disc housing
has an angled back wall as defined in claims 1 to 6 on appeal.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A disc cassette comprising:
a case in which a disc-like recording medium having an
information recording area is rotatably received, said case
having an opening through which at least a part of said
information recording area of said medium is exposed;
means for defining a rectangular recess on a front area
of said case where said opening is positioned, said
rectangular recess being defined by two opposed side walls, a
back wall and a bottom wall, said back wall being oriented to
face forward; and
a shutter slidably engaged with said rectangular recess
in a manner to selectively open and close said opening, said
shutter being slidable in a direction parallel to a direction
in which said back wall extends,
wherein said back wall of said rectangular recess has a
surface inclined relative to said bottom wall, said back wall
and said bottom wall forming an obtuse angle, and wherein a
height of said back wall defines a depth of said rectangular
recess, said depth being greater than a thickness of said
shutter.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Fujita et al. (Fujita) 5,084,862 Jan. 28,
1992
Claims 1 to 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
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