Appeal No. 1998-0893
Application No. 08/196,440
We take claim 6 as a representative claim. We have
reviewed the examiner’s position, answer at pages 4 through 6
and pages 8 through 11, and the position of appellants, brief
at pages 8 through 15 and reply brief at pages 1 through 5.
We disagree with the examiner’s position for the reasons
generally given by appellants in said parts of the brief and
the reply brief. We add the following reasons for our
disagreement with the examiner’s position. We find that Coons
nowhere teaches or discloses the claimed means for inserting
in the sequence of binary words a first control code at the
beginning of each page, neither does Coons disclose the
claimed means for starting an operation cycle of the folder-
inserter when all of the pages of the latter have been
printed. In fact, Coons does not show a folder-inserter.
Instead, Coons teaches an embedded intelligence in the form of
a machine readable indicia printed on at least some of the
sheets of a document. This indicia (such as a bar code on the
sheet of a document) is used by Coons to differentiate the
size of the sheets being stacked in a stack, so that if a
different size sheet is needed, the stack is moved to a
different feeder to receive the sheet of different size.
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