Appeal No. 2000-2263
Application No. 08/925,387
Upon our review of Nakamura, we fail to find any teaching
or suggestion or motivation for providing an ink feeding
needle located slightly behind the position determining shaft
as recited in Appellants' independent claim 8. Nakamura is
not concerned with the problem of aligning an ink feeding
needle with an ink outlet piece as solved by Appellants'
invention. Nakamura is not faced with this problem because
Nakamura's invention relates to a replaceable ink cartridge in
which the ink reservoir is integral with the interchangeable
jet type printing head 31. As a result, Nakamura would have
provided absolutely no motivation or reason to those skilled
in the art to employ an ink feeding needle slightly behind the
free ends of the position determining shaft as required in
Appellants' independent claim 8.
In view of the foregoing, we have not sustained the
rejec-tion of claims 8 through 14 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Accordingly, the Examiner's decision is reversed.
REVERSED
LEE E. BARRETT )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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