Appeal No. 96-3950
Application No. 08/131,056
in the "option 1" mode of Dennis meets the "serializable form"
claim limitation as defined in Appellants’ specification
(Answer, pages 7 and 8). The Examiner references page 5 of
Appellants' specification as providing the definition of
"serializable form" ,in particular, lines 7-9 which state
The serialization is deemed to
include any "on the fly"
decompression or image enhancement
performed by printer controller
hardware or software on the
rasterized page data.
In response, Appellants contend (Reply Brief, pages 8, 16, and
17), that the referenced passage does not state that
"serialization" is limited to "on-the-fly" decompression.
Appellants refer to page 9, lines 3-5 of the specification as
a further description of operations which would be part of the
serialization process performed at the printer.
After careful review of Appellants’ arguments and the
Dennis reference, we are in agreement with the Examiner that
the rasterization process performed in the "option 1" mode in
Dennis produces data in directly serializable form as defined
by Appellants. The description at lines 3-5 of page 9 of
Appellants’ specification adds only the process of assembling
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