Appeal No. 2004-0326 Page 3
Application No. 09/651,019
means for determining whether the electronic price label is to display the
item's unit price or an alternate message based on the alternate data for the
item;
means for transmitting to the electronic price label a message containing
the unit price and a command to display the unit price;
means for determining if the alternate data comprises the alternate
message or the alternate data comprises one or more instructions directing the
creation of the alternate message;
means for creating the alternate message utilizing the one or more
instructions if the alternate data comprises the one or more instructions; and
means for transmitting to the electronic price label the alternate message
and a command to display the alternate message.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Goodwin, III 5,999,913 Dec. 7, 1999
(Goodwin '913)
Goodwin, III 6,021,395 Feb. 1, 2000
(Goodwin '395)
Claims 1 to 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Goodwin '395 in view of Goodwin '913.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the final
rejection (Paper No. 4, mailed September 4, 2002) and the answer (Paper No. 9, mailed
April 7, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
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