Appeal No. 2004-0410
Application No. 09/509,415
the tray design of Mojden ‘278 is such that the sticks contained
therein would not exhibit the inadvertent depalletizing problem
which is solved by the pallet wrapping technique of Mojden ‘010.
Second, the objectives of Mojden ‘278 would be frustrated by
the pallet wrapping technique of Mojden ‘010. For example, an
objective of Mojden ‘278 is “to provide an automatic tray loading
and unloading system for accommodating and balancing operations
among multiple stations in a multiple station can end processing
and handling facility” (column 2, lines 62-65). Toward this end,
the invention of Mojden ‘278 comprises “an automatic loading and
unloading system for loading articles [i.e., sticks] supplied
from a first location at a rate commensurate with the rate at
which articles are supplied from said first location, into trays
and for unloading said articles from said trays for transport to
a second location at a rate commensurate with the demand for said
articles at said second location, and for balancing a supply of
articles loaded onto said trays with variations in both the rate
of supply thereof and the rate of demand therefor” (column 2,
line 67, through column 3, line 8). Thus, an artisan would have
been disinclined to provide the invention of Mojden ‘278 with the
pallet wrapping technique of Mojden ‘010 as proposed by the
examiner because the presence of the pallet wrapping material
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