Appeal No. 2000-1766
Application No. 09/095,029
drawer is removed from the opposite end of the bin.
[answer at page 4]
However, while it is true that different books can be removed
from opposite lateral sides of the drawer, no one book is removable
from both lateral sides of the drawer. Rather, one book can only
be removed from the one lateral side of the drawer closest to the
book because the other books in the other row of the drawer prevent
removal of the book from the other side of the drawer. In addition,
in our view, the lateral sides of the drawers are not “ends” as
recited in claim 1. Rather, the “end” of a drawer of Cooper is
that portion of the drawer which opens into aisle 30 or 32. As
such, we will not sustain this rejection as it is directed to claim
1 or claims 2, 5 and 10 dependent thereon.
We turn next to the examiner’s rejection of claims 1 through
25 as unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Yoshie in view of
Felde.
In support of this rejection, the examiner finds that Yoshie
discloses the invention of claim 1 except that Yoshie does not
disclose that the trays can be removed from either end of the
magazines. The examiner relies on Felde for disclosing data
cassette storage system wherein cassettes 5 which house a data
storage device are removably stored in magazines 4, which
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