Appeal No. 95-1661
Application 07/976,913
to 17 as of the time of submission of the brief, we dismiss the
appeal as to these claims. Therefore, claims 1 to 9 and 18 to 21
remain for our consideration.
The pertinent portion of independent claim 1 on appeal, is
“said control unit identifies in response to said character
information a spatial area in which the set of information data
items to be printed may be printed; operating, in response to
identification by said control unit of the spatial area, said
control unit to format a patch corresponding to the spatial area
sufficient to accommodate the set of additional variable
information data items to be printed.” A corresponding pertinent
portion of independent claim 18 on appeal is “means for analyzing
the set of data items corresponding to variable information to be
printed on the copies and deriving a second set of x, y coordi-
nate signals defining the outline of at least one area in which
the largest to be printed character information in the data items
may be printed.”
The examiner relies upon the following reference:
Jamali et al. (Jamali) 4,887,128 Dec. 12, 1989
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