Appeal No. 2000-0116
Application No. 08/950,539
provide the well known means of filling a pre-formed
envelope.
We do not agree with this argument, but rather agree with
appellant that there is no teaching or suggestion which would
support the combination of Lee and Aronsen. Assuming arguendo
that one of ordinary skill would consider Aronsen to be
pertinent to the problem of enclosing confidential sheets
within an enclosure, we do not consider that one of ordinary
skill would
find any suggestion in Aronsen to modify the Lee apparatus to
form an enclosure (envelope) and then insert the pages from
the facsimile machine 10 thereinto, nor any teaching as to how
such a
modification should be accomplished, the Aronsen apparatus
being fundamentally different from that of Lee in that in
Aronsen, as discussed above, the enclosure is initially formed
by folding a web, whereas in Lee the enclosure is formed from
separate sheets.
It is evident that, at a minimum, modification of the Lee
apparatus to insert the pages into a preformed enclosure
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