Appeal No. 1999-2095
Application 08/475,624
of the steps of storing the generated signals and,
consequently, retrieving the stored signals.
With regard to the Tieden patent, appellants’ main
argument is that this reference “does not show or suggest the
use of any diagnostic system (which stores information for
later retrieval) in a cushioning conversion machine” (main
brief, page 15).
We have carefully considered appellants’ arguments
supporting patentability of claims 7 through 11 and 25 through
29 over the combined teachings of the APA and Tieden.
However, we are not persuaded that the rejection of these
claims is improper.
Although Tieden’s illustrated embodiment relates to so-
called numerically controlled machines (see, for example,
column 1, lines 6-11), appellants do not expressly contend
that this reference constitutes non-analogous art. In any
case, appellants’ invention and Tieden’s invention relate to
the same basic problem. In appellants’ case, the problem
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