Appeal No. 1998-0866
Application No. 08/698,707
providing a magnetic roller as the recording mechanism as
taught by Swanson.
We reject appellants' notion that the references are not
combinable because "of the diverse approaches they teach"
(brief, page 5). Rather, we observe that the references
simply teach different ways of recording different types of
desired information on the magnetic strip portion of film. In
the present instance appellants indicate a desire to provide
the same information (e.g. the owner's name and address)
repeatedly for each frame of the film (specification, pages 2-
3). Swanson teaches that his disclosed roller retains
magnetic field strength so that it is capable of "multiple
insertions" (col. 5, line 63) and "[t]he present invention
should therefore not be seen as limited to the particular
embodiment described herein..." (col. 6, lines 20-22).
Likewise, we reject appellants' suggestion that "in
Swanson et al. the roller wheel 106 appears to be at least as
wide as the filmstrip 14" such that "[i]ts use in Brock et al.
and Goto et al. would scratch the film exposures" and "[t]hus,
Swanson et al. would discourage one skilled in the art to make
the combination with Brock et al. and Goto et al." (brief,
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