Appeal No. 2002-1151
Application No. 09/324,835
When the number of rolls for one customer
will not fit into a single change box,
additional change data is generated.
The examiner assesses the Oshita reference as disclosing an
automated system, with processing calculations such as comparing
change data to predetermined reference values, addition,
substraction, and division as inherent to the processing of
customer change data and the corresponding change pack delivered
(answer, pages 3 and 4). On the other hand, it is appellant’s
position that the Oshita document does not teach an apparatus
having a change data comparator and a change data divider (brief,
page 5).3 According to appellant (brief, pages 6 and 7), with
the reference system the comparison of cash amounts to change
pack capacity is done by the operator, before change data is
input into the system. By unsupported attorney argument alone
(brief, pages 7 and 8), the language of the official translation
(quoted above in this opinion) is contested with the assertion
that a correct translation would replace “generated” with ---
prepared (by the operator)--.
3 While the spelling of “Oshita” in the reference differs
from the spelling of “Ohshita” in the present application, it is
our understanding that appellant is the inventor Oshita of the
reference.
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