Appeal No. 2001-0948
Application No. 08/959,138
boxes nor media-type pop-up dialog boxes. Although the main menu
display 63 permits the setting of a photosensitive material
(i.e., a media material) (column 19, lines 60 through 62) during
the performance of scanning functions, the setting of the media
material is not after a print dialog box has been opened and
closed. Within the main menu display 90 is a print setting
button 95 that will bring up a dialogue box 113 for a print
setting operation (Figure 12; column 22, lines 53 through 59;
column 24, lines 18 through 30). The dialogue box 113
simultaneously displays both a print dialog box and a media-type
(i.e., paper size) pop-up dialog box.
Laumeyer permits the user of console 18 to select a printer
19 from among the suite of printers 19, and to select media for a
print job (column 11, line 62 through column 12, line 14).
Laumeyer is completely silent as to whether the console user has
the benefit of dialog boxes when making the noted selections.
Inasmuch as neither Kubo nor Laumeyer teaches or would have
suggested the specifically claimed steps of closing the print
dialog box before displaying the media-type pop-up dialog box,
the obviousness rejection of claims 1 and 10 is reversed. The
obviousness rejections of claims 2 through 9 and 11 through
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