Appeal No. 2001-2601
Application No. 09/167,897
present in an implementation of the Briechle's hard-wired system.
Upon our review of Briechle, we find that Briechle is suggesting
to those skilled in the art that the method of sub-global
addressing could be implemented without the use of the
intelligent gondola controllers, but instead by means of a hard-
wired logic apparatus. The hard-wired apparatus would still
implement Briechle's sub-global addressing method which does not
determine unique electronic price label identifiers for each
electronic price label in a group of electronic price labels from
a table linking the unique group identifier to the unique
electronic price label identifiers and sending messages addressed
to the unique electronic price label identifiers which contain
identical information as claimed by Appellant. Therefore, we
will not sustain the Examiner's rejection of claims 1-9, 13, 14
and 16-21 under 35 U.S.C. § 102.
For the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection, of claims 10-12, 15 and
22, we note that the Examiner relies on Briechle for the above
limitations. Furthermore, we find that Kayser and Failing do not
provide the missing pieces. Therefore, we will not sustain these
rejections for the same reasons as above.
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