Appeal No. 1998-0889 Application 08/006,585 This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of claims 1-23 and 41-47. Claims 24-40 stand allowed. We affirm-in-part. BACKGROUND The disclosed invention is directed to a method and system for printing personal information on a prepared writing surface of a pre- manufactured plastic card at the time of issuance. Claim 1 is reproduced below. 1. A system for electronically recording client personal information and issuing individually customized pre-manufactured plastic cards in a single interview with the card issuing authority, wherein the customized pre-manufactured plastic cards have a unique card identification affixed to each card and wherein a permanent record is made of the recorded client personal information by printing on a prepared writing surface on the customized pre-manufactured plastic card at the time of card issuance, comprising: data entry means for entering the unique card identification and for entering client personal information which corresponds to the unique card identification during a client interview with the card issuing authority; means for automatically creating an electronic client record of the unique card identification and corresponding client personal information at the time of card issuance; means for storing the electronic client record at time of card issuance; and - 2 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007