Appeal No. 2000-2293
Application No. 08/685,162
to facilitate the loading of disks in case the player is at a
high place (brief, pages 6 & 7). Referring to Kawamura,
Appellant argues that holding hooks 20, located at the end of a
pair of spring reeds 22, are only for grabbing a bare disc or
hooking onto notches in a disc cartridge when either a disc or a
cartridge is inserted (brief, page 7). Additionally, Appellant
asserts that even if the holding hooks of Kawamura were combined
with the tilting tray of Sasaki, the result would not have taught
the claimed break-away mechanism adapted for preventing damage to
the disk holding tray upon impact of an external force (brief,
page 8).
In response to Appellant’s arguments, the Examiner asserts
that Kawamura discloses a break-away mechanism as coupling 20
which “inherently shows that the break-away mechanism is adapted
for preventing damage to the disc holding tray upon impact of the
external force as claimed because elastically material is
flexible” (answer, page 6). The Examiner reasons that since
Kawamura shows the break-away mechanism for preventing damage to
the disc holding tray, it would have been obvious to adapt
Sasaki’s break-away mechanism for preventing damage to the disc
holding tray as taught by Kawamura (id.).
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