Appeal No. 1998-3131 Page 10
Application No. 08/192,224
Hoisington that teaches or suggests ... a recess including
equivalent alignment features." (Appeal Br. at 9.)
Claim 15 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: "a print head mounted within the recess and
shaped to define at least one ink passageway along a
substantial length of the print head and wherein the recess
has long
side edges and the body is shaped to define alignment features
for aligning the print head in the recess spaced from the long
side edges of the recess ...." Accordingly, the claim
requires alignment features for aligning a print head in a
recess.
The examiner fails to show a suggestion of the
limitations in the prior art. Here, although Chan discloses
"a plurality of rectangular sunken receptacles in a central
area," col. 6 l. 37, the receptacles do not include alignment
features. The reference merely teaches that "every other
receptacle in a row will receive a printhead and the alternate
remaining intermediate receptacles will receive an IC package
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