Appeal No. 2001-1018
Application 09/211,688
self-service checkout terminal in response to generation of
said audit-required control signal,” i.e., operating a self-
service checkout terminal so that the customer is allowed to
perform a self-audit. The express disclosure of GB ‘575 is
that the store controller (16) decides whether a customer’s
purchases are to be checked or audited, and that the customer
is then directed to a Re-scanning Checkout (24) where the
customer’s purchases are re-scanned and checked “by a store
assistant” (see GB ‘575, page 7 and page 9). As for the
examiner’s attempt (answer, page 8) to belatedly identify the
self-service checkout terminal of the claims on appeal as
corresponding to the checkout stations (22, 24) of GB ‘575, we
observe that the disclosure of GB ‘575 identifies each of
these checkout stations as being manned by a store assistant
(see pages 5, 8 and 9), and thus the stations (22) and (24)
are clearly assisted checkout terminals, not self-service
checkout terminals like those required in appellants’ claims
on appeal.
Regarding appellants’ claim 7 directed to a retail
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