Appeal No. 2000-2256
Application No. 09/069,377
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the anticipation issue
raised in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully
considered appellants' specification, drawings, and claims,
the applied patent, and the respective viewpoints of
appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our review,
we make the determination which follows.
We do not sustain the rejection of claims 34 and 35. Our
reasons appear below.
As disclosed (specification, page 2), it is a feature of
the present invention for an ink ribbon cartridge to have a
flexible resilient housing wall within which the ink ribbon is
based. The housing wall deflects resiliently when the
cartridge is being inserted until the housing wall encounters
a recess which causes the cartridge to detent essentially into
its operating position. More specifically (specification,
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