Appeal No. 2002-2258
Application No. 09/134,977
essentially in the same manner as noted by appellant at pages 8
and 9 of the principal brief on appeal where it appears that the
system will stop automatically if there is some kind of a
mismatch determined by the overall system and the operator
implicitly must manually put the documents into a proper order
rather than the system performing automatically any kind of
regeneration of apparently misprocessed mailpieces. The
misprocessing or mismatching occurs when the correct documents
collected according to the alpha-numeric sequence indicators are
determined to be out of sequencing order. To the extent the
examiner’s views may be considered to be correct that an alpha-
numeric sequence indicator is some kind of a control document,
there appears to be no teaching or suggestion in this reference
of the regeneration of them in accordance with the requirements
of the claims on appeal. As such, we must reverse the rejection
of various claims on appeal as being anticipated by or rendered
obvious over Schneiderhan alone.
Lastly, we consider this rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 of
claims 15, 19 and 21 through 27 as being obvious over the
combined teachings and showings of Baker in view of Schneiderhan.
It should be apparent to the reader that there is thus no basis,
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