Appeal No. 1998-2462 Application No. 08/548,696 Ausnit discloses using a fastener 15,17, to hold the bottom of a bag closed during filling of the bag. Thus, Ausnit is not relevant to the claim limitation of holding the interior surfaces of the empty bag together. Furthermore, Ausnit fails to suggest a modification of Causley that would allow the sides to be held together without platform 174, as required by the claim. In addition, Causley fails to disclose coupling the container to a reservoir of an ink-jet pen and moving ink from the container to the coupled reservoir. Causley states (column 3, lines 63-66) that the ink flows from inside the ink container 16 to the outside of the cartridge, from which the ink is delivered to an ink jet head. Nowhere does Causley mention a reservoir. As neither Ausnit nor Larkin relates to an ink-jet printer, the combination fails to disclose the steps of coupling the container to a reservoir and moving ink to the reservoir. Accordingly, as the three references do not disclose all elements of the claimed invention, the examiner has failed to establish a prima facie case of obviousness. Therefore, we cannot sustain the obviousness rejection of claims 5 through 7. 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007