Appeal No. 1998-0893
Application No. 08/196,440
The book by Alan Simpson, Mastering WordPerfect® 5.1 and
5.2 for Windows (Sybex 1993) (hereinafter WordPerfect),TM
pp. 30, 31, 74, 305, and 306, has a date of publication of
February 12, 1993, which is five days before6
Appellants' foreign priority date. WordPerfect explains that
all the formatting features in a document, including page
breaks, are controlled by hidden codes in the document
(p. 74). The page break control codes (hard page or soft
page) are considered a "first control code," as claimed. It
was notoriously well known in the computer art that the end of
a file is marked by a special end of file (EOF) control code
following the last character of the file, which is considered
a "second control code at the end of the last page of the
6The following copyright information was found on the
Copyright Office website ("http://www.copyright.gov") where
IMPR is the imprint information, DCRE is the date of creation,
DPUB is the date of publication, and DREG is the date of
registration:
TITL: Mastering WordPerfect 5.1 & 5.2 for Windows / Alan
Simpson.
IMPR: San Francisco : Sybex, c1993.
PHYS: 1198 p.
CLNA: Sybex, Inc.
DCRE: 1993 DPUB: 12Feb93 DREG: 29Apr93
PREV: Prev. reg. 1991, TX 3-193-471.
LINM: NM: "updated & rev. material."
ECIF: 1/B/L//A
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