Appeal No. 96-3950
Application No. 08/131,056
initialization commands, and (b) a printer coupled to the host
computer having a print engine and a printer controller with
buffer memory, including(i) means for receiving and
recognizing image initialization commands from the host
computer, (ii) means for receiving page data, in a form that
it can be directly serialized, from the host computer after
the image initialization commands, (iii) means for storing
said page data in buffer memory in the form it is received,
and (iv) means for serializing the page data directly from the
buffer memory to the print engine.
The Examiner's Answer relies on the following references : 2
Komura et al. (Komura) 3,895,184 Jul. 15, 1975
Dennis 5,337,258 Aug. 09,
1994
(Filed Jul. 10, 1992)
Claims 1-6 stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(e) as being anticipated by the disclosure of Dennis.
Claims 1-6 further stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Kaku et al. in view of Komura
and Dennis. In the statement of the grounds of rejection and
in the arguments in the Answer, the Examiner no longer relies
on Kaku et al. but rather only Komura and Dennis to support
the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
2In the final rejection, the Examiner additionally relied
on the U.S. patent to Kaku et al. (4,992,956); however, Kaku
et al. has not been relied on in the Examiner's Answer.
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