Appeal No. 96-3950
Application No. 08/131,056
which is capable of performing the recited functional
limitations. RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc.,
730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir.); cert.
dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984); W. L. Gore and Assoc, Inc. v.
Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1554, 220 USPQ 303, 313 (Fed.
Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
With respect to independent claim 1, the Examiner has
indicated how he reads the various limitations on the
disclosure of Dennis (Answer, pages 3 and 4). The Examiner
makes particular reference to the block diagram of the printer
system of Dennis illustrated in Figure 2 and the operation of
the system of Dennis in the “option 1" mode illustrated in
Figure 4. Appellants argue several alleged distinctions over
Dennis including their contention that the system of Dennis
does not provide data in a form that can be directly
serialized by a printer (Brief, pages 9 and 10). In response,
the Examiner states on page 3 of the Answer in reference to
Dennis
When the system operates in option 1 mode,
resource assembler 208 of host computer
renders RPL to create compressed bit map
(raster) image of a page of data to be
printed (see lines 33-44 in column 26 of
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