Appeal No. 95-4023
Application 08/062,033
obtained from the information read from the document and is a
representation of a position of a transport mechanism
associated with the transport path in that the sort code is
passed only after the document's edge has been detected by the
sensor circuits. The Examiner further argues on page 5 of the
answer that the Appellant's position that this
identifier is to be unique for each document is not supported
by the language of the claim.
On page 2 of the reply brief, Appellant in response
argues that the claim language, "unique document identifier"
requires an identifier that is unique for each document and
not something which is unique in some respects, relates to a
document in other respects and serves some identification
function. Appellant further argues that while the Cloud sort
code may be a unique bin identifier, the sort code is not a
unique document identifier as required by Appellant's claim
17.
Upon a careful review of Cloud, we fail to find that
Cloud teaches
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