Ex Parte SHIMIZU et al - Page 6



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

                    standing or falling together as a group, and we will treat claim                                                                                      
                    13 as a representative claim of that group.  We will, thereby,                                                                                        
                    consider Appellants' claims 27, 30 and 32 through 34 as standing                                                                                      
                    or falling together, and we will treat claim 27 as a                                                                                                  
                    representative claim of that group.  We also note that Appellants                                                                                     
                    have argued claims 35 and 36 as a single group.  See page 5,                                                                                          
                    lines 1 and 2 of the brief.  We will, thereby, consider                                                                                               
                    Appellants' claims 35 and 36 as standing or falling together, and                                                                                     
                    we will treat claim 35 as a representative claim of that group.                                                                                       
                    Finally, we note that Appellants have argued claims 24 through 26                                                                                     
                    as a single group.  See page 4, lines 18 and 19 of the brief.  We                                                                                     
                    will, thereby, consider Appellants' claims 24 through 26 as                                                                                           
                    standing or falling together, and we will treat claim 24 as a                                                                                         
                    representative claim of that group.                                                                                                                   
                              Appellants argue that Collins does not teach or suggest that                                                                                
                    "a commodity code reading section, a prepaid card inputting                                                                                           
                    processing section, a commodity price retrieval section and a                                                                                         
                    data updating section are permanently fixed to a transportable                                                                                        
                    accommodation section" recited in claim 13.  See page 6, lines                                                                                        
                    13-18 of the brief.  Appellants do not disagree that Collins                                                                                          
                    reads on commodity code reading, purchasing structure or a                                                                                            
                    transporting accommodation section.  See page 6, lines 1-12 of                                                                                        
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