Ex Parte SHIMIZU et al - Page 2



                    Appeal No. 1999-1625                                                                                                                                  
                    Application No. 08/792,468                                                                                                                            

                    method of purchasing using the same.  The apparatus includes a                                                                                        
                    transportable accommodation section (3), a commodity code reading                                                                                     
                    section (2), a prepaid card (87) inputting processing section                                                                                         
                    (83a), a commodity price retrieval section (91b) and a data                                                                                           
                    updating section (83b) which are permanently fixed to the                                                                                             
                    transportable accommodation section (3).  See Appellants'                                                                                             
                    specification on page 27, line 10, page 53, line 15 through page                                                                                      
                    54, lines 14, page 96, lines 5-15 and page 107, lines 7-20 and                                                                                        
                    associated figures 10, 11, 24 and 29.                                                                                                                 
                              The independent claims 13, 27 and dependent claim 28 present                                                                                
                    in the application are reproduced as follows:                                                                                                         
                    13. A purchased commodity accommodating and transporting                                                                                              
                    apparatus having a self scanning function, comprising:                                                                                                
                              a commodity code reading section for reading a commodity                                                                                    
                    code applied to a commodity;                                                                                                                          
                              a transportable accommodation section for accommodating                                                                                     
                    therein and transporting a commodity whose commodity code has                                                                                         
                    been read by said commodity code reading section;                                                                                                     
                              a prepaid card inputting processing section for receiving a                                                                                 
                    prepaid card and reading remains information of the prepaid card;                                                                                     
                              a commodity price retrieval section for retrieving the price                                                                                
                    of the commodity in accordance with the commodity code                                                                                                
                    information read by said commodity reading section; and                                                                                               
                              a data updating section for registering a result obtained by                                                                                
                    subtraction of the price of the commodity retrieved by said                                                                                           
                    commodity price retrieval section from the remains information                                                                                        
                    read by said prepaid card inputting processing section as remains                                                                                     
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