Appeal No. 2003-0256
Application No. 09/334,375
normally are provided with either a precut sheet supply or a roll
stock supply and a stock cutter for cutting sheets to size from
the roll stock (col. 1, lines 6-25).
The examiner argues (answer, pages 6-7):
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary
skill in the art to use a series of discrete receiver
sheets with a transponder coupled to one of the sheets
as taught by Mallory in place of the print roll used by
Purcell et al.
The motivation for doing so would have been in
order to eliminate the need for a stock cutter and
lower the cost of the printer of Purcell et al. as
taught by column 1, lines 14-16 of Mallory.
Mallory, however, does not disclose a transponder coupled to a
sheet. Mallory merely discloses precut sheets (col. 1, line 8),
and Purcell’s disclosed transponder is embedded in an insert
attached to an end of a media roll holder (col. 2, lines 11-14;
col. 9, lines 11-12). Thus, the applied prior art does not
disclose a transponder coupled to a sheet, and the examiner has
not explained how the applied prior art itself would have fairly
suggested the use of a transponder coupled to a sheet to one of
ordinary skill in the art. The record, therefore, indicates that
the motivation relied upon by the examiner for using, in place of
Purcell’s media roll and transponder on the roll holder, a stack
of sheets with a transponder being coupled to a sheet, comes from
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