Appeal No. 2006-1463 Page 2
Application No. 10/703,932
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a stacker and a method of stacking
sheets, wherein batches of sheets are separated from each other by batch separator
sheets, the separator sheets being offset from the batches. A copy of the claims
under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants’ brief.
The examiner relies upon the following as evidence of unpatentability:
Irvine US 4,067,568 Jan. 10, 1978
Tsai US 6,056,288 May 2, 2000
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1-8 and 15-25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Tsai in view of Irvine.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner
and the appellants regarding this appeal, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (mailed January 27, 2006) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support
of the rejection and to the appellants’ brief (filed November 16, 2005) and reply
brief (filed February 7, 2006) for the appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
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