Appeal No. 97-2885
Application 08/384,847
machine are stored and applied to a steering or control
process in subsequent passes of the printed material through
the machine is well taken. In this regard, neither Sainio nor
Steiner teaches passing printed material through a printing
machine in multiple passes, much less using image signals
picked up in the first pass in a steering or control process
in subsequent passes of the printed material through the
machine. Minschart's disclosure of a web registration method
fails to cure these deficiencies.
Consequently, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 rejection of claim 1 as being unpatentable over Sainio
or Steiner in view of Minschart.
The following rejection is entered pursuant to 37 U.S.C.
§ 196(b).
Claim 2 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as failing to particularly point out and distinctly
claim the subject matter the appellant regards as the
invention.
The scope of claim 2 is indefinite for the following
reasons. To begin with, the "obtaining" step recited in the
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