Appeal No. 1999-0291
Application No. 08/646,077
Claim 19 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Palmatier, Reichel, and Morgan.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 5) and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 15) for a statement of the examiner's position and to the Brief (Paper No. 13) and the
Reply Brief (Paper No. 17) for appellant’s position with respect to the claims which stand
rejected.
OPINION
We turn first to the section 103 rejection of claims 1, 5, 6, 10, 11, and 14 as being
unpatentable over Palmatier and Reichel. Appellant acknowledges that the tachometer as
disclosed by Palmatier (Fig. 1, element 24) is a sensor “to indicate the operating speed of
the printing press 10.” (Brief, page 8.) Appellant contends, however, that Palmatier does
not disclose or suggest that register mark sensors 35, 45, 55 (Fig. 1) are used, in
combination with tachometer 24, to determine a speed difference between a printing plate
(on plate cylinder 21) and a speed of the press, and thus control a speed of the plate
cylinder body to reduce the speed difference.
Palmatier discloses, inter alia, “a sensor for sensing circumferential misregister.”
See Palmatier at the sentence bridging columns 3 and 4. “[T]he printing units 30, 40, 50,
have respective register mark sensors 35, 45, 55 for sensing register marks printed onto
the web 12 of sheet material, as is known. Each of the register mark sensors 35, 45, 55
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