Appeal No. 2003-0204 Page 2
Application No. 09/096,123
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a cushioning conversion system which
converts sheet stock material into cushioning material. More particularly, the present
invention relates to a cushioning conversion system including a packaging controller,
wherein the system is adapted to provide recommended packaging and/or packaging
information to an operator based on the parts to be packaged, and further to provide for
monitoring of packaging supply inventories (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims
under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims is:
DePoint, Jr. et al. 5,105,600 Apr. 21, 1992
(DePoint)
Claims 279 to 284 and 287 to 294 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over DePoint. The basis for this rejection as set forth on pages 2-3 of the
final rejection (Paper No, 22, mailed November 1, 2001) was as follows:
DePoint discloses a packaging system comprising an input device used to
identify the part and generate a signal indicative of the identified part (column 6,
lines 25-27); a controller (48) coupled to the input device and receiving the signal
indicative of the identified part (column 5, lines 46-51); the controller programmed
to retrieve a predetermined set of packaging instructions associated with the
identified part from a memory (column 2, lines 32-45); the packaging instructions
having a step contains [sic] a description of a cushioning technique designed for
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