Appeal No. 2003-1966 Page 2
Application 08/789,959
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a replaceable ink container for use in an ink-
jet printer having a scanning carriage. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which has been reproduced below.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Sabonis et al. (Sabonis) 5,719,608 Feb. 17, 1998
(filed May 4, 1995)
Moriyama et al. (Moriyama) 6,050,680 Apr. 18, 2000
(filed Jun. 26, 1996)
Okazaki et al. (Okazaki) 6,179,415 Jan. 30, 2001
(filed Aug. 12, 1994)
Claims 1, 4 and 7-13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Moriyama in view of Okazaki.
Claims 1, 4 and 7-13 also stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Moriyama in view of Sabonis.1
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Answer
(Paper No. 40) and the final rejection (Paper No. 34) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the Brief (Paper No. 38) and Reply Brief
(Paper No. 41) for the appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
1This was expressed as an alternative in the single rejection presented by the examiner.
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