Appeal No. 2002-0574
Application No. 09/144,949
(a) reading an electronic price label data file to
obtain identification information for an item associated
with the electronic price label;
(b) determining from the identification information
whether the item is the random weight item; and
(c) if the item is the random weight item, sending a
message to the electronic price label instructing the
electronic price label to display only unit price
information.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Sundelin 4,002,886 Jan. 11, 1977
O’Connor 4,959,530 Sep. 25, 1990
Claims 1 through 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Sundelin in view of O’Connor.
Reference is made to the brief (paper number 11) and the
answer (paper number 12) for the respective positions of the
appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will sustain the obviousness rejection of claims 1, 2 and
4 through 6, and reverse the obviousness rejection of claim 3.
As shown in Sundelin (Figures 1 and 2), an electronic price
label 6 displays both a unit price 10, 11 and a total price for
an item. The examiner acknowledges (answer, pages 4 and 5) that
“Sundelin fails to teach determining from the identification
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