Appeal No. 1997-0509
Application 08/314,131
claimed in claim 5 for the following reasons. Appellant
argues that “claims 5 and 16 recite that the multiple blocks
of the printer memory may each be used to store character data
or program data corresponding to multiple user applications or
programs.” [Brief, page 10]. Again, at page 12 of the brief,
Appellant reiterates that “[i]n accordance with this
explicitly recited structure (claim 5) and method (claim 16),
user-defined character data and/or graphic data may be
selectively downloaded from a host computer for use in the
divided print memory, thereby obviating the need for memory
expansion.” However, as the Examiner points out, this feature
does not appear in claim 5. In fact, claim 5, in pertinent
part, calls for “assigning a usage to each of the memory
blocks ... blocks.” Toyokura, figure 1B, does disclose the
assignment to each of the memory blocks (0 thru 7), a usage,
such as of storing of characters A, B and C depending on an
application being run. Furthermore, a plurality of
applications can be run on a computer, including Toyokura's,
one at a time, and the results of each particular application
can be printed by using the printer of Toyokura. Claim 5 does
not call for the different applications being run
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