Appeal 2007-2560
Application 10/310,356
ticket substrate along a ticket substrate path to the applicator;
and
(b) wherein the cover material path and the ticket substrate path
cross at a crossing point removed from the location of the
applicator.
The Examiner relies upon the following reference in the rejection of
the appealed claims:
Shingu US 5,824,178 Oct. 20, 1998
Appellants’ claimed invention is directed to an apparatus for applying
a cover to a gaming ticket substrate wherein the path of the cover material
and the path of the ticket substrate cross at a crossing point that is removed
from the location of the applicator.
Appealed claims 13-16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Shingu.
Appellants have not set forth an argument that is reasonably specific
to any particular claim on appeal. Accordingly, all the appealed claims
stand or fall together with claim 13.
We have thoroughly reviewed each of Appellants’ arguments for
patentability. However, we fully concur with the Examiner that the patent to
Shingu describes the claimed subject matter within the meaning of § 102.
Accordingly, we will sustain the Examiner’s rejection for the reasons set
forth in the Answer, and we add the following for emphasis only.
The sole argument advanced by Appellants is that Shingu does not
describe material paths which cross at a point. On the other hand, it is the
Examiner’s position that materials 11 and 12 of the reference, when
delivered to the upper and lower shelves of shelf 6, proceed on paths that
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