Appeal No. 1997-0411 Page 2
Application No. 08/441,658
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the final rejection of claims 12, 14, 15, 18, 21, and 34.
The appellants filed an amendment after final rejection on
February 5, 1996, which was entered. We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The invention at issue in this appeal is a menu-driven
computer for formatting a document. A user first chooses a
type of document that he wants to produce. Responsive to the
choice, the user is presented with a menu of formatting
options relating to the paper size, paper direction, and
printing direction of the type of document. He then selects
one of the options or freely inputs his own formatting
options. The document is formatted according to the selected
or inputted options.
Claim 12, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
12. A method for setting paper size, paper
direction and printing direction of a document in a
document processing apparatus having both an editing
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