Appeal No. 2001-0225
Application 09/085,021
to Baker et al. (Baker) in view of U.S. Patent No. 4,972,655
to Ogawa.
Attention is directed to the appellants’ main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 14 and 16) and to the examiner’s answer
(Paper No. 15) for the respective positions of the appellants
and the examiner with regard to the merits of this rejection.
Baker, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a
mailer apparatus (see Figure 1) comprising a laser printer 5
having an infeed tray T1 for envelope forms and an infeed tray
T2 for sheets, a folder sealer 6 having infeed trays T3 and T4
for pre-printed sheets, and an output stacker 7. In use,
“after printing, sheets are passed from laser printer 5 to
folder sealer 6 where they are accumulated with an envelope
form, folded and sealed, and output to stacker 7. . . .
[T]rays T3 and T4 . . . may be used to add pre-printed sheets
to the mail piece” (column 4, lines 34 through 39).
Of particular interest in this appeal is the envelope
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