Appeal No. 2000-0376
Application 08/753,236
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. An improved metering system that affixes an indicia
to a mail piece, the improvement comprising: recording
information relative to printing parameters of a printer
that recorded the indicia on the mail piece, wherein the
recorded information is recorded in the indicia or in the
vicinity of the indicia to provide evidence of the printer
printing parameters used to record the indicia.
THE PRIOR ART
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Chapman, Jr. (Chapman) 4,106,060 August 8, 1978
Kipphan et al. (Kipphan) 4,955,290 September 11, 1990
Bruns et al. (Bruns) 5,005,995 April 9, 1991
Johnsen 5,151,684 September 29, 1992
Dietrich 5,186,498 February 16, 1993
Kim et al. (Kim) 5,480,239 January 2, 1996
Billington 5,489,767 February 6, 1996
Morrison et al. (Morrison) 5,543,177 August 6, 1996
Smaha et al. (Smaha) 5,557,742 September 17, 1996
Cordery et al. (Cordery) 5,655,023 August 5, 1997
(filed May 13, 1994)
Zabele 5,712,921 January 27, 1998
(filed November 17, 1995)
Mizutani 5,774,146 June 30, 1998
(filed August 30, 1996)
Schwartz et al. (Schwartz) 5,780,778 July 14, 1998
(filed June 7, 1995)
Information Based Indicia Program Postal Security Device
Specification, prepared for United States Postal Service
(USPS) Engineering Center (June 13, 1996) (hereinafter
Information Based Indicia Program or IBIP).
The main reference to Dietrich is summarized below.
Dietrich disclose a method of identifying a postage meter
and monetary value stamping machine, which uses microprocessor-
controlled printing methods, such as laser printing, dot matrix
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