Appeal No. 2005-1273 Page 2
Application No. 10/057,619
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates generally to inkjet printing devices. ln particular,
the appellant's invention is an inkjet printing system having multiple printheads for
depositing ink droplets onto print media to form images and text on different areas of the
print media at the same time. The use of multiple printheads printing at the same time
on different portions of the print media results in greatly increased print media
throughput for the inkjet printing system (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under
appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Logan 4,910,871 Mar. 27, 1990
Asakawa 4,940,998 July 10, 1990
Granzow 5,677,719 Oct. 14, 1997
Chapin et al. (Chapin) 5,838,343 Nov. 17, 1998
Yashima et al. (Yashima) 6,164,747 Dec. 26, 2000
Claims 1 to 6, 8 to 14, 18, 19, 21 to 28, 30 to 33 and 35 to 44 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Yashima in view of Granzow.1
1Claim 44 was not included in the statement of this rejection. However, it is clear
from the rejection that the examiner meant to include claim 44 in this ground of
rejection.
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007