Appeal No. 1997-3481
Application 08/476,543
Claims 15-26 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over [?] set forth previously with the
addition of the publications now cited.
The IDS [citing the Knowles article] and the
"appendix" [presumably referring to the appendix to the
response filed February 29, 1996, Paper No. 6] clearly
indicates that reading of plural codes were in the
province of [M]etrologic.
The IDS cites the Knowles article, where Knowles is the
President of Metrologic Instruments, Inc. The appendix to
Paper No. 6 contains (1) an internal memorandum dated
November 25, 1981, between employees of Symbol Technologies,
Inc., the assignee of the Swartz '798 and '186 patents, which
discusses the Metrologic MS 131 Laser Data Terminal
(hereinafter "the Symbol Memorandum"), and (2) a copy of an
Operator's Manual for the Metrologic MS 131 Laser Data
Terminal having a revision date of October 1982 (hereinafter
"the Metrologic Product Manual").
Appellants state their belief (Br6) that the final § 103
rejection appears to be over the combination of Swartz '798,
Swartz '186, Sanner, the Knowles article, the Symbol
Memorandum, and the Metrologic Product Manual. Appellants
argue that the Symbol Memorandum and the Metrologic Product
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