Appeal No. 2001-0830
Application No. 08/917,718
We also agree with appellant’s arguments that Kashiwazaki
does not teach storage of environment data in non-volatile memory
because the font scaler and print data of Kashiwazaki are stored
in volatile memory 24. As explained by appellant, at page 7 of
the principal brief, “if the data were non-volatile, such that
old font data or emulator data were carried over, then the unique
relationship between print and emulator data...would not be
maintained, thereby obviating a principle of operation of the
reference.” The examiner disputes this position, stating
[answer-page 8] that Kashiwazaki teaches a nonvolatile memory for
storing and holding various setting contents, pointing to column
6, lines 44-46. However, it is not clear from this portion of
Kashiwazaki that one of those “various setting contents” is the
environment setting data determined by the determining means, as
claimed.
Moreover, we also agree with appellant’s argument that
Kashiwazaki does not include print and environment data as
separate packet formats, as claimed. Column 9 of Kashiwazaki,
cited by the examiner for such a teaching, merely indicates a
format for a control command and does not require separate
packets for the two data types if a control signal within a
single packet can separate environment and print data.
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