Appeal No. 97-2710
Application No. 08/402,080
print jobs;
a third controller, responsive to the user interface
selection of a printer only mode or a printer & facsimile
mode to prevent access to the printer by the facsimile
circuit when printer only mode is selected, and
allowing first in, first out access to the printer by the
facsimile when printer & facsimile mode is selected.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
“Delrina WinFax LITE User’s Guide,” Sixth Edition, June 1993,
pages 3-12 through 3-15 and 4-1 through 4-5.
Claims 1 through 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over the WinFax User’s Guide.
Reference is made to the Office Action (paper number 5),
the brief and the answer for the respective positions of the2
appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 3 is
reversed.
WinFax gives a Windows user the option of combining the
output of several applications (e.g., a piece created in
desktop publishing, a word processed letter, an order form)
2The grounds of rejection in the Answer improperly refers
to more than one prior Office Action. See Manual of Patent
Examining Procedure § 1208(a) (6th ed., July 1998).
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