Appeal No. 96-3101
Application 08/020,570
according to an important feature the
addressing can be performed while the old
image is still being printed. This is
possible because the addressing does not
immediately affect the printing plate,
since the addressing time takes about 15
minutes.
These arguments regarding the addressing feature are also
unpersuasive. In the first place, it is significant to note
that this addressing feature is not expressly disclosed in
appellant’s specification. In fact, appellant does not even
explain how the low resistance state of the threshold switches
R1 and R3 can be maintained if the addressing state on the
associated X address line 24 is changed to a logical 0 (i.e.,
zero volts). More importantly, the argued addressing feature
is not recited in the appealed claims. Nor is it necessarily
inherent from the claimed details of the electrical circuit.
Appellant’s arguments regarding this feature, therefore, are
simply not commensurate with the scope of the claimed
invention.
For the foregoing reasons we will sustain the examiner’s
§ 103 rejection of claims 1 through 12 and 14 through 30, it
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