Appeal No. 1997-3062
Application No. 08/207,370
intercommunication to place the printer in a ready state and
reduce its warm-up time” [brief, page 7]. Again, appellant
has identified no claim language directed to the argued
“intercommunication” and placing the printer in a ready state
to reduce its warm-up time.
With regard to the computer/printer combination argument,
the examiner admits that there is no explicit mention of a
printer in Mese which is why the examiner relies on the
ordinary skill of the artisan faced with Mese’s teaching of a
generic “controlled object” and Nakanishi’s teaching of a
printer which may be used as a controlled object. The fact
that Nakanishi is “not concerned with two separate
interconnected components, such as a computer and printer,” as
argued by appellant [brief, page 8], is not controlling.
Nakanishi is cited merely as an example of a printer which
might be employed as the “controlled object” in Mese.
However, in our view, Mese, itself provides enough suggestion
to the skilled artisan to provide a printer as the controlled
object. Since Mese clearly shows the combination of a
computer and a “controlled object,” and the skilled artisan
would have recognized the use of a printer for such a
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