Appeal No. 96-1624 Page 4
Application 07/913,615
By contrast, the keyboard 24 and RAM 23 that Ohkubo
discloses are associated with the image processor 20, not the
scanners 13-1 through 13-N. (4:16-20; Fig. 1.) Indeed, in
Ohkubo, control flows exclusively from the image processor out to
the scanners (2:22-30), not vice versa. Although Ohkubo
discusses "code transmitted from the scanner" (3:40-60), it
appears in context that "code" is simply image data in the format
used by a particular scanner.
Since Ohkubo does not teach or suggest a limitation in
claim 12, we must reverse the rejection of claim 12 as
unpatentable over Ohkubo. The rejections of the remaining
claims, which depend from claim 12, must likewise be reversed.
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