Appeal No. 2002-0074 Page 6
Application No. 08/800,758
The appellants argue (brief, p. 9; reply brief, p. 4) that Devening does not
anticipate claims 11 and 14 to 16 since the moving structure as claimed in the rejected
claims is not disclosed in Devening. We do not agree.
The moving structure as claimed in the rejected claims2 is "readable on" one of
Devening's middle shelving racks located between the two endmost shelving racks. For
example, the moving structure as claimed in claim 15 is "readable on" the shelving row
of racks shown in Figure 2 of Devening as follows (where the four shelving racks shown
are designated shelving rack #1, shelving rack #2, shelving rack #3 and shelving rack
#4, from left to right in the figure): a moving structure capable of moving horizontally in
the longitudinal direction of said vertical installation structure (Devening's shelving rack
#2 is capable of moving horizontally in the longitudinal direction of the row of racks),
2 E.g., as recited in claim 15,
a moving structure capable of moving horizontally in the longitudinal
direction of said vertical installation structure, said moving structure comprising:
stages on which at least one information processing apparatus is to be placed,
and
prop supporting members supporting said stages so that said
stages are vertically arranged and each of said stages corresponds
vertically to each of said placing stages of said vertical installation
structure and said stages are horizontally arranged at the same intervals
as said placing stages of said vertical installation structure, whereby the
information processing apparatus set on each of which said stages is
transferrable to a corresponding one of said placing stage of said vertical
installation structure by sliding the information processing apparatus along
the stages of the moving structure to the placing stages of the vertical
installation structure.
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