Appeal No. 1998-0866
Application No. 08/698,707
on the camera body" (final, page 2). Brock and Goto are cited
for their teaching of employing a plate at the back of a
camera to support the magnetic recorder and the examiner
concludes that "it would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art
at the time the invention was made to modify Swanson et al. by
rotatably mounting the magnetic roller recorder on the camera
body by having 'a plate which rotationally supports said
magnetic roller recorder in place and is constructed to be
fitted to said rear housing portion to light-tightly seal said
rear opening'" (final, pages 2-3).
Appellants urge that "Brock et al. and Goto et al. are
quite different than Swanson et al." in that "Brock et al. and
Goto et al. simply show fixed magnetic heads 60 and 8 in
cameras... [n]o information is permanently stored on the
magnetic heads, and the magnetic heads are stationary" whereas
"[i]n Swanson et al. , non-varying information is permanently
stored on the rotatable roller wheel... intended for a single
brief recording of the information only at one location on the
MOF" (brief, page 5). Appellants conclude that "one of
ordinary skill in the art would not necessarily be motivated
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