Appeal No. 1999-0009
Application 08/648,386
deactivating a mode for preventing a facsimile machine from
printing when a predetermined number of sequential lines of black
data have been stored in its memory.
Uetama does not teach a black data reception stop mode that
prevents its facsimile apparatus from printing when a
predetermined number of sequential lines of black data have been
stored in its memory. As explained regarding claims 9, 11-14,
and 22, Uetama prints marginal, compressed data when a
predetermined number of sequential lines of blank data have been
received by the apparatus.
Because Uetama prints marginal, compressed data when a
predetermined number of sequential lines of blank data have been
received, we are not persuaded that the teachings from the
applied prior art would have suggested the limitations of
“determining whether a black data reception stop mode has been
activated while scanning said image data on said document;
printing the image data scanned during said scanning step when
said black data reception stop mode has not been activated.”
Therefore, we reverse the rejection of claims 9, 11-14, and 22 as
being obvious over Uetama in view of Horiuchi further in view of
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