Appeal No. 1999-1584
Application No. 08/579,242
rule that an issue raised below which is not argued in that
court, even if it has been properly brought here by reason of
appeal is regarded as abandoned and will not be considered.
It is our function as a court to decide disputed issues, not
to create them.”).
ANALYSIS
We consider the two combinations rejecting the claims
below.
Watson and Perry
The examiner rejects claims 1 to 7, 10, 11, 13 to 15 and
17 to 20 over this combination at pages 3 to 5 of the
examiner’s answer. After discussing Watson and Perry
individually, the examiner concludes, id. at 3, that: “[i]t
would have been obvious . . . for Watson to scan a code on an
envelope, as taught by Perry, to [at] least scan a code in
different locations, such as an envelope.” Further on, the
examiner asserts, id. at 4,
that:
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