Appeal No. 2000-0359 Page 6
Application No. 08/777,393
reached in which a check is made to determine whether the
margin space YS is zero.” Col. 14, l. 9-11. If the margin
space YS is found to be 0 in step S126, step S128 is reached
in which the flag AF is reset, and control is returned as
above.” Col. 14, ll. 18-21. Similarly, “[i]f the margin
space value Sd is found to be 0 in step S143, step S144 is
reached in which the flag AF is reset.” Col. 15, ll. 8-10.
Accordingly, we are not persuaded that the reference discloses
laying out the characters of a character string "so as to
satisfy B>D>0, where D is the dimension of a margin between an
edge of said frame and a character at an end of said string,
and B is the dimension of an inter-character spacing between
adjacent characters. . . ." Therefore, we reverse the
rejection of claims 1 and 12.
CONCLUSION
In summary, the rejection of claims 1 and 12 under §
102(b) is reversed.
REVERSED
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