Appeal No. 1998-0933
Application No.08/421,597
characters and improperly assigned characters in the mail
piece image address; and
assigning characters in the selected mail piece
images based on statistical relationships in the
database.
The reference relied upon by the examiner is:
Manduley et al. (Manduley) 5,079,714 Jan. 7,
1992
Claims 19-22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Manduley.
The respective positions of the examiner and the
appellants with regard to the propriety of these
rejections are set forth in the final rejection (Paper
No. 8), the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 12) and the
appellants’ brief (Paper No. 11).
Appellants’ Invention
An adequate summary of the invention is provided at
pages 2-5 of the brief.
Opinion
After consideration of the positions and arguments
presented by both the examiner and the appellants, we
have concluded that the rejection should not be
sustained.
Manduley discloses a mail processing system. The
system includes a comparator 18 which assigns an ordinal
number to each piece of mail to identify each mail piece
individually to allow the system to track each mail piece
as it is processed. The ordinal numbers are stored in a
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