Appeal No. 2000-0730
Application 08/761,098
The appellant has provided no cogent enabling
disclosure of a lockout structure or for a card or
"token" reader which reads a "selected pattern of tokens"
(claim 1), interactively, or for interfacing with a
"Robot", a "lift" or other controlled system. The claims
merely mimic the vague disclosure.
The Examiner, referring to the specification at p. 4,
lines 4-19, asserts (EA6):
The glaring and crucial ommission [sic] from this
vague, disjointed reference to the prior art is an
inclusion of specific explanation or documentation or a
submission or an I.D.S. which indicates that the
application disclosure or the prior art provides the
recognition and solution of reading patternsof [sic]
"tokens" or cards for controlling "space", "machine" or
entry/exit to provide a basis for obvious enablement.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office must support a
rejection for lack of enablement with reasons.
In re Marzocchi, 439 F.2d 220, 223-24, 169 USPQ 367, 369-70
(CCPA 1971). The Examiner fails to provide reasons why one of
ordinary skill in the art would not have been able to
implement token means for reading tokens or the flowchart for
the lockout means without undue experimentation, but merely
makes conclusory allegations that the disclosure is not
enabling. To the extent the Examiner somehow implies that the
specification does not show structural details, we note that
functional blocks, such as the controller 130 in figure 1
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