Appeal No. 1997-3481
Application 08/476,543
free of any contact with the bar code as a whole during
reading of a complete line of bar code information;
(e) a printed circuit board in said hand-held bar
code reader unit having circuitry thereon connected with
said photodetector, said circuitry receiving said bar
code signal generated by said photodetector; and
(f) a bar code signal processor located in said
hand-held reader unit responsive to said bar code signal
for determining the type of bar code in said sensing
region and for decoding the information contained in said
bar code signal into a usable form, said processor
permitting the successive reading of different ones of
said bar code types.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art
references:
Dobras 4,115,703 September 19,
1978
McWaters et al. (McWaters) 4,118,687 October 3,
1978
Sakai 4,210,802 July 1,
1980
Swartz et al. (Swartz '798) 4,251,798 February 17,
1981
Chadima, Jr. et al. (Chadima) 4,282,425 August
4, 1981
Knowles, Data Acquisition Through Portable Laser
Scanners, Code and Symbol, April 1976, pp. 13, 14, 18.
Claims 15-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph, based on a lack of enabling disclosure.
Claims 15-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly
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