Ex Parte GILLIHAN et al - Page 4




              Appeal No. 2003-0549                                                                   Page 4                 
              Application No. 09/149,408                                                                                    


                             (b) a user interface comprising a graphical display of an image for a                          
                     plurality of pages of said original electronic document and an icon                                    
                     representing a page subject to a  formatting change applied through said                               
                     interface, said interface enabling a computer user to cause said printing                              
                     device to print said copy of said original electronic document and to                                  
                     change the format of a page, but not all pages of said copy, by applying,                              
                     at least, one of the following formatting changes to said page:                                        
                             (1) change paper stock;                                                                        
                             (2) duplex printing;                                                                           
                             (3) simplex printing;                                                                          
                             (4) mirroring of an image;                                                                     
                             (5) rotation of image;                                                                         
                             (6) negation of image;                                                                         
                             (7) zoom;                                                                                      
                             (8) n-up printing;                                                                             
                             (9) guttering;                                                                                 
                             (10) print multiple copies of said page;                                                       
                             (11) leave said page unprinted; and                                                            
                             (12) overlaying a watermark on said page.                                                      


                     Claims 1, 5, and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as anticipated by                          
              U.S. Patent No. 6,262,732 ("Coleman").  Claims 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 stand rejected under                        
              35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over Coleman and U.S. Patent No. 5,751,286 ("Barber").                          
              Claims 11 and 15 stand rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over Coleman and U.S.                               
              Patent No. 5,634,091 ("Sands").  Claims 16 and 20 stand rejected under § 103(a) as                            
              obvious over Coleman and U.S. Patent No. 5,301,262 ("Kashiwagi").                                             












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