Appeal No. 1997-4140 Page 11
Application No. 08/279,628
We end by noting that our reversal is based only on the
references applied in the rejection. The appellant submitted
European Patent Application 0 254 518 (‘518 Application) and
Japanese Patent Abstract JP1241923 (Tadao) in an Information
Disclosure Statement. (Paper No. 6 at 1.) The ‘518
Application teaches a program sheet 30 formatted as a
rectangular grid of cells arranged in rows and columns, with
broadcasting stations 31 and channel numbers 32 along one side
of the grid, hours along another side, and titles of programs
33 and bar codes 34 in each cell. Col. 4, ll. 29-35
(referencing Fig. 6). Tadao teaches bar codes 2 and 3-3 in a
”program column of a newspaper or a magazine ....”
Constitution, l. 2. Scanning the bar codes “sets the
broadcast station ... and broadcast start time of the reserved
broadcast program ....” Id. at ll. 8-9. Nevertheless,
neither the ‘518 Application nor Tadao is applied or is at
issue in the rejection before us.
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