Appeal No. 1997-0411 Page 8
Application No. 08/441,658
Also similarly, independent claim 34 specifies in
pertinent part the following limitations:
34. A method for setting paper size, paper
direction, and printing direction of a document in a
document processing apparatus ... comprising the
steps of:
...
displaying a plurality of document
information selecting menu items which correspond to
said designated one of said categorized basic menu
items, each ... item indicating a combination of
paper size, paper direction and printing direction
...;
designating one of said ... items for said
document; and
performing an operation of setting paper
size, paper direction and printing direction on said
document according to said designated one of said
... items.
Giving claims 12, 18, and 34, their broadest reasonable
interpretation, the claims recite permitting a user to select
the paper size, paper direction, and printing direction of a
document and the setting of all of them.
The examiner fails to show a teaching or suggestion of
these limitations in the prior art. Although he refers to the
“‘Banner mode of The Print Shop,’” (Examiner’s Answer at 3),
the examiner
admits, “In the Banner mode format document information is
fixed.” (Id. at 6.) Because the reference does not even
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