Appeal No. 2006-1279
Application No. 10/249,005
upon the code or form printed thereon. If such priority mail is
determined, the mail piece is outsorted accordingly for more
rapid handling [Berson, col. 4, lines 8-18].
In either embodiment, Berson's detection of (1) a
predetermined form, code, or address block, or (2) the code or
form printed on a check, reply, or urgent message hardly
guarantees detection of the entire document content as claimed.
Rather, Berson's system determines the type of document based on
certain information on the document -- not necessarily the entire
document content. In short, the examiner's contention that
Berson detects the entire document content is, at best, a
strained reading of Berson and therefore speculative on the
record before us.
Furthermore, we fail to see how the system of Berson could
detect the entire document content and print a new hard copy of
the entire document if the document within the sealed envelope is
folded such that the document's text is superimposed. On the
other hand, we can envision Berson's system detecting relevant
portions of the content such as forms, codes, address blocks,
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