Appeal No. 2000-0376
Application 08/753,236
OPINION
Grouping of claims
The claims within each ground of rejection are grouped to
stand or fall together (Br7). One exception is claim 28.
Although not really argued, it corresponds to a limitation in
claim 5, which rejection is reversed, and we exercise our
discretion to reverse the rejection of this claim separate from
the other claims.
Claims 1, 7, 9, and 16 ) Dietrich and Bruns
The Examiner finds that Dietrich does not mention "printing
parameters" (FR2). The Examiner finds that Bruns discloses a
system that records information relative to printing parameters
of a printer to identify a printer component (the print wheel)
(EA5). The Examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to
modify Dietrich to include Bruns printing parameters because this
would completely specify the machine and increase the number of
parameters that a counterfeiter would have to manipulate to
escape detection (EA5).
In the examiner's answer, the Examiner further finds (EA5)
that Dietrich does not explicitly describe that the recording is
"in the indicia or in the vicinity of the indicia." "Indicia"
refers to the usual postage, date, place, etc. placed on a mail
piece by a postage meter, and corresponds to the printing pattern
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