Appeal No. 96-2739
Application 08/185,320
apparatus.
Independent claim 17 is reproduced as follows:
17. In a system for processing field data from a
plurality of printed forms, wherein each form has printed
thereon at an unspecified arbitrary location an encoded
information region, the information in said region including a
complete encoded description of the location of the field data
on the form, a method for reading said field data comprising
the steps of:
scanning a printed form to produce an electronic
representation of said printed form;
locating in the electronic representation of said printed
form the arbitrarily located encoded information region;
decoding the description of the location of the field
data from the encoded information in said encoded information
region; and
locating in the electronic representation of said printed
form the field data from the decoded location information.
The reference relied on by the Examiner is as follows:
Shepard 4,021,777 May 3,
1977
Claims 7 through 9 and 15 through 18 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Shepard.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellants or the
Examiner, we make reference to the brief and the answer for
the respective details thereof.
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