Appeal No. 2006-1343 2
Application No. 10/121,530
Appellant’s invention relates to a device for handling printed
products supplied to a stacking device, which products are picked
up at a delivery end of a printing machine or printed product
processing machine by a transport device (3) for further transport
in a suspended position and are supplied via a conveying path to a
transfer device (5) arranged upstream of the stacking device.
Independent claim 1 is representative of the subject matter on
appeal and a copy of that claim can be found in the Appendix
attached to appellant’s corrected brief (filed September 21, 2005).
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Müller 5,110,108 May 5, 1992
Sjogren et al. (Sjogren) 5,226,780 Jul. 13, 1993
Landgren 5,931,459 Aug. 3, 1999
Mack et al. (Mack) 6,000,695 Dec. 14, 1999
Claims 1, 6 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Mack in view of Landgren and Müller.
Claim 8 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Mack in view of Landgren and Müller as applied to
claims 1 and 6 above, and further in view of Sjogren.
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