Appeal No. 1998-2174
Application No. 07/813,733
Claims 1-7 and 9-13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Kawamura, Sato, and Utsumi.
Claims 8, 14, 15, and 24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Kawamura, Sato, Utsumi, and Nakagawa.
Claims 16-23 and 24-42 have been withdrawn from consideration.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 30) and the Examiner's Answer
(Paper No. 34) for a statement of the examiner's position and to the Brief (Paper No.
33) and the Reply Brief (Paper No. 35) for appellants’ position with respect to the claims
which stand rejected.
OPINION
Although appellants’ asserted grouping of the claims on appeal is unclear (see
Brief, page 3; Reply Brief, page 1), appellants do not argue any claims separately with
respect to the rejection over Kawamura, Sato, and Utsumi. We select claim 1 as
representative of the claims subject to that ground of rejection. See 37 CFR
§ 1.192(c)(7).
The examiner states the rationale for the section 103 rejection over Kawamura,
Sato, and Utsumi on pages 4 and 5 of the Answer. The examiner finds that Kawamura
teaches an ATM which includes a detachable bank note cassette 16 which is used to
recharge stackers 21 and 22 (see Kawamura, Fig. 3), and also used to receive currency
from the stackers. Kawamura is also found to teach a “bank note arranging machine”
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