Appeal No. 1997-3062
Application No. 08/207,370
supra, the printer will be set in a ready state in response to
the sensing of the approach of a computer user.
There can be no doubt that Mese teaches the sensing of an
approach of a user to the computer. See column 4, lines 2 et
seq. of Mese.
With regard to the “scheduled use” argument, the
“scheduled use” of the controlled object by a user in Mese is,
indeed, controlled. The controlled object is not placed in a
ready state until the approach of a user is sensed. At that
point, one can say that the controlled object, e.g., a
printer, is placed in a ready state in anticipation of a user
manipulating inputs to the computer. The time during which a
user employs the computer, or manipulates the keyboard, may be
said to be a “scheduled use,” as broadly claimed by claims 10
and 11. Similar to appellant’s invention, the sensing of an
approach by a user in the Mese system “assumes the presence of
the scheduled use of said [controlled object which may be a]
printer.”
Appellant’s arguments at pages 9-10 of the brief
regarding the missing features of Mese and Nakanishi amount to
arguments against the references individually and do not
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