Appeal No. 97-0171
Application No. 08/187,290
a complete zip code.” (See abstract.) Mihm does not disclose that the system edits the
document or changes a bar code which is already in the document.
The language of claim 1 requires that
the graphical symbol encoding data representing the original document
information . . .
an editing system connected to receive the document information data from
the translator and produce edited document information data;
an edited document information data translator for translating the edited
document information data to edited symbol data; and
a printer for printing the edited document information data as edited
document information on an edited document and printing the edited symbol
data as an edited graphic symbol on the edited document at a single
location disassociated from the edited document information printed on the
edited document.
If the system of Mihm were to read a bar code and edit the content thereof and generate a
new bar code of the changed information, this would be a teaching of editing as set forth in
claim 1. We do not find such a teaching in Mihm and the Examiner has not cited to any
portion of the reference beyond “(see the abstract and any other corresponding section).”
(See answer at page 5.) Furthermore, Mihm retrieves the document information in
electronic form which is print ready and then evaluates the document for the zip code
information and appends the bar code thereto. (See Mihm at col. 20 and claim 1.) Using
the Examiner’s interpretation of Mihm, the document information could only be the actual
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