Appeal No. 1997-2988
Application No. 08/045,499
OPINION
At a minimum, apparatus claims 11 and 12 on appeal
require a scanner and a printer located adjacent a paper path
with the scanner positioned upstream along the paper path from
the printer. The Figure 11 and the Figure 18 embodiments of
Hirose disclose such structure in a word processing/data
processing system. In both embodiments, the user interface to
the word processor is a keyboard. The Figure 11 embodiment
discloses “a printer [109] connected to said data processing
system, said printer [109] further comprising means for
printing on paper [135], a paper path [P -P ] located adjacent
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to said means for printing [109] and a scanner [108] located
adjacent to said paper path and upstream along said paper path
from said means for printing, said scanner being located a
distance along said paper path from said means for printing,
said distance being less than a length of said form.” In
Figure 11, the rollers 129, 130, and 138 are “means for moving
said form by said means for printing and said scanner.” The
Figure 18 embodiment of Hirose has a scanner 208 and a printer
209 located adjacent to a paper path P -P . The scanner is
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located upstream from the printer along the paper path, and
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