Appeal No. 1999-1965
Application 08/529,230
Yokota’s plastic
bag/paper towel feed roll arrangement. The addition of the
Yokota feed rolls and product guides to the Boreali system
would appear to be unnecessarily redundant, while the
substitution of same for Boreali’s driven platen roller 17
would complicate the printing aspect of the Boreali system by
necessitating the provision of another platen for printhead
18. In this light, it is evident that the examiner has
improperly employed the claimed invention as a template to
selectively combine the Boreali and Yokota disclosures. It is
also noted that these references fail to respond to the
particular relationship required by claims 1, 16 and 19
between the housing and the label supply support. As for the
additional prior art references applied by the examiner,
suffice to say that they are insufficient to cure the
foregoing deficiencies in the basic Boreali-Yokota
combination.
Hence, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) rejections of independent claims 1, 16 and 19 or of
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