Appeal No. 95-4814
Application 07/935,507
The only requirement placed upon appellants by the referenced
portions of 37 CFR §§ 1.62 and 1.63 is that they file a
corrected declaration. Except for a corrected declaration,
appellants have complied with all of the requirements of 35
U.S.C. § 120, and MPEP §§ 201.08 and 201.11. Thus, we find
that the Vala patent is not proper prior art against the
claims on appeal.
Although Vala is not available as prior art against
the claims on appeal, the BACKGROUND section of Vala discloses
that high-speed document processors requiring intense
illumination sources were well known in the art. Accordingly,
we rely on that admission and Martino.
Martino discloses a light table arrangement 17 for
illuminating documents contained on film, wherein a large3
number of documents on film are rapidly, continuously, and
automatically transported by film advance system 15 past one
or more imaging stations on cover 83. As seen in Figures 1
through 4, one or more imaging stations are formed by the pair
A writing conveying information does not have to be on3
paper. A film, like paper, is a material substance that can
hold representations of our thoughts via conventional marks or
symbols.
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