Appeal No. 1999-0009
Application 08/648,386
omit printing the unwanted excess data, it would have been
obvious ... to applied [sic] the idea of Uetama to avoid printing
excess black data, since black and blank are the two opposition
conventions used in image printing and having too much of any
kind of the two means the whole document image will not be
properly printed.” (Final Rejection at 3.) Noting that “the
board held that the following limitations: ‘determining whether
the stored image data contains a predetermined number of
sequential lines of black data; and stopping the print operation
and displaying a print stop message, when said predetermined
number of sequential lines of black data has been determined to
have been stored in said memory,’ ... were not taught by the
applied art,” (Req. Reh’g at 10), the appellant argues, “[t]he
foregoing limitations are also found in claims [sic] 9.” (Id.)
Claims 9, 11-14, and 22 specify in pertinent part the
following limitations: “determining whether the stored image data
contains a predetermined number of sequential lines of black
data; and stopping the print operation and displaying a print
stop message, when said predetermined number of sequential lines
of black data has been determined to have been stored in said
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