Appeal No. 1998-0866
Application No. 08/698,707
We find that modification of the Swanson device to
provide an internal recording device as suggested by Brock or
Goto teaches away from the objective disclosed in Swanson and
would not have been an obvious modification at the time the
invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the
art.
Accordingly, the decision of the examiner to reject claim
1 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
NEW GROUNDS OF REJECTION
Under the authority of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), this panel of
the board introduces the following new grounds of rejection as
to claims 1, 4 and 5.
Claims 1, 4 and 5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Brock in view of Swanson.
We note that both Brock and Swanson teach recording
magnetic information on a magnetic track on film in a camera.
Each discuss the various types of information that may be
recorded, e.g. the name of the owner of the camera, the date
and/or location of the picture being taken, the camera
settings (Swanson, col. 1, lines 11-37, and Brock, col. 1,
lines 37-50) and the type of recording device suitable to
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