Appeal No. 1998-3391
Application 08/659,143
cert. denied, 519 U.S. 822 (1996)(citing W.L. Gore & Assocs.,
Inc. v. Garlock Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1548, 220 USPQ 303, 309
(Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984)).
Claims 1, 6 through 10, 14, 24, 25, and 26 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Sugisaki in
view of Hasegawa and Matsuo.
On pages 6 and 7 of the brief, Appellant argues that none
of these three references relied on by the Examiner discloses
or suggests a printing assembly with a paper guide for guiding
separate sheets of paper in a single U- or C-shaped arc from a
paper output port of one laser printer to a paper feed port of
the other laser printer so that the single sheets of paper are
simply inverted or turned 180 during passage from the outputo
port to the feed port. Appellant argues that Hasegawa teaches
at least two U-shaped arcs in the paper path between two
printers of the Hasegawa reference. Appellant further argues
that Matsuo does not teach a path that is C-shaped or U-shaped
but instead teaches a vertically downward path with horizontal
components first to the left and then to the right during
transit of the paper along the path. Appellant further argues
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