Appeal No. 1999-1889 Page 12
Application No. 08/366,988
communication opening through one side of the cartridge body
that is in communication with the first material for
discharging the ink from the first material and the cartridge
body and a venting hole in the one side of the cartridge body
for balancing pressure inside and outside of the cartridge
body.” Similarly, claim 13 specifies in pertinent part the
following limitations: “the cartridge body having a
communication opening through one side of the cartridge body
that is in communication with an opposite side of the first
material from the one side of the first material for
discharging the ink from the first material and the cartridge
body and a venting hole for balancing pressure inside and
outside of the cartridge body” and representative claim 5 adds
the following limitations: “wherein the venting hole is in the
one side of the cartridge body.” Accordingly, the limitations
of claims 1 and 5 require inter alia positioning a venting
hole in the same side of an ink cartridge as an ink
discharging opening.
The applied prior art would have suggested the
limitations. "’All of the disclosures in a reference must be
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