Appeal No. 96-3950
Application No. 08/131,056
Dennis). Serializable form is defined
in lines 7-9 on page 5 of the Appellants’
specification.
In their Reply Brief (pages 6-8), Appellants argue that Dennis
does not describe how the disclosed hardware achieves the
"option 1" mode in which the host computer produces a bit-map
and further that any such compressed bit-map file is not in a
form which can be directly serialized by the printer.
We note, initially, that Appellants are correct to the
extent that, in Dennis, details of the actual production of a
compressed bit-map file are described in relation to an
element identified as the resource executor 224 located in the
printer (column 9, lines 37-57). We are in agreement with the
Examiner, however, that Dennis provides a clear disclosure of
the rasterization process in which a compressed bit-map is
produced at the host computer. In our view, it is clear that
in the "option 1" mode disclosed by Dennis, the resource
assembler 208 in the host computer acts as the resource
executor to produce the compressed bit-map file (Dennis, col.
26, lines 33-42). With respect to the feature
of producing print data in serializable form, the Examiner
argues that the production of the compressed bit map data file
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