Appeal No. 1999-0009
Application 08/648,386
line data is [sic] received successively, subsequently successive
total blank line data are not printed but what is called the
marginal portion is printed by compression. As a consequence,
the unrequired [sic] marginal portion in the original is deleted
for printing, thereby conserving the amount of recording paper
consumption.” Col. 4, ll. 27-33. The addition of Horiuchi,
Sakata, and Nakatsuma does not cure the defect of Uetama.
Because Uetama prints marginal, compressed data when a
predetermined number of sequential lines of blank data have been
received, we are not persuaded that the teachings from the
applied prior art would have suggested the limitations of
“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.”
Therefore, we reverse the rejection of claims 9, 11-14, and 22 as
being obvious over Uetama in view of Horiuchi further in view of
Sakata even further in view of Nakatsuma. We proceed to
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