Appeal No. 2002-1860
Application No. 09/204,275
create a chamber that is physically isolated from the disc chamber
so that, even with the pin 26 removed, there is no danger of disc
contamination through the open sensor hole. Given the above
disclosures of the prior art, it is our view that any suggestion to
combine Fujiura and Akiyama could only come from Appellants’ own
disclosure and not from any teaching in the references themselves.
Lastly, we also do not sustain the Examiner’s obviousness
rejection of dependent claims 37, 40, and 50 based on the proposed
combination of Fujiura and Satoh. The Satoh reference has been
added to Fujiura as providing a teaching of informing a user to
perform a certification process. We find nothing, however, in
Satoh which overcomes the innate deficiencies of Fujiura in
disclosing the control of a sensor hole to a second state as
discussed supra.
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