Appeal No. 1998-0893
Application No. 08/196,440
letter"; a user of WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows with the Common
User Access (CUA) keyboard style can go to the end of the
document by pressing Ctrl+End (pp. 30-31). WordPerfect
discusses the problem of reverse printing to avoid the problem
of having to manually re-collate the pages from printers that
print pages face up (page 305). The macro for backwards
printing at page 306, together with the WordPerfect program,
performs the function of "recognizing said first and second
control codes . . . for the purpose of playing back said
recorded binary words to the printer, letter page by letter
page in inverse order . . . ." Thus, I find that the method
of reverse printing using embedded control codes was known.
The main reason I write separately is to point out that
claim 6 requires more than just a means for inverting the
order of printing and a folder-inserter. Claim 6 requires an
inverter having "input/output interfaces connected to the word
processor system, the sheet-fed printer and the folder-
inserter" and "means for starting an operation cycle of the
folder-inserter when all of the pages of the letter have been
printed." Assuming, arguendo, that the inverter's means for
inserting codes and means for playing back the recorded binary
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