Appeal No. 2004-0334 Page 2
Application No. 08/853,608
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates generally to the field of data cartridge storage
and handling systems, and more particularly to a portable carrying case or caddy for
handling data cartridges. In particular, the appellants' invention provides a method and
apparatus to enable a cartridge handling mechanism to reference a data cartridge to a
data cartridge caddy within an autochanger storage rack in order to return the data
cartridge to the data cartridge caddy after the autochanger has finished using the data
cartridge (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the
appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Porter 5,576,911 Nov. 19, 1996
Fukazawa et al. JP 6-2514741 Sept. 9, 1994
(Fukazawa)
Claims 1 to 10 and 13 to 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
anticipated by Porter.
1 In determining the teachings of Fukazawa, we will rely on the translation provided by the
USPTO. A copy of the translation is attached for the appellants' convenience.
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