Appeal No. 1999-1584
Application No. 08/579,242
Watson is silent to the layout of the labels being
special service forms. It would have been obvious
. . . to print out labels having special service
forms since it is well known in the art that address
information comes in various orders, such as special
service forms, . . . thus obvious to use in Watson
to print addresses on special service forms.
Appellant argues, brief at page 13, that: “[t]he method and
system require that a complete, automatically imaged form be
provided, imaged, and assembled to the mailpiece. This
teaching is nowhere provided in the art.” We agree with the
appellant’s position. Watson is directed to selecting a
preprinted label from an array of labels and cutting that
label by cutting means 65 and transferring the label onto the
article to be mailed at
station 48. There is no provision in Watson for reading the
indicia from an article to be mailed. Perry on the other hand
may be considered to be capable of scanning the information
from the article to be mailed, if the article to be mailed is
considered to be the “primary document.” However Perry does
not disclose or teach the incorporation of the information
read from the primary document onto a special form which is
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