Appeal No. 2001-0843
Application No. 08/945,415
The portions of the disclosure of Shope, i.e., page 3, lines
22-27 and page 5, lines 1-3, cited by the Examiner (Answer,
page 4) are directed to discussions of print spooling and
address pointers, respectively. While Shope discloses that
print jobs “ . . . are spooled one page at a time to a
pattern generator or raster image processor (RIP) 10,” we
find no support for the Examiner’s conclusion that this
operation indicates that separate page files are created for
each page of a multi-page print job. In other words, the
spooling operation described by Shope, rather than
describing the creation of separate page files, merely
indicates that print images are fed one page at a time in
coordination with the slower printing speeds of the printer,
enabling printing as a background operation while permitting
user interaction with other applications.3 Similarly, we
agree with Appellants that the passage at lines 1 and 2 of
page 5 of Shope merely suggests the use of address pointers
3 See definition of a “print spooler” at page 317 of Computer Dictionary, (2nd
Ed., Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA 1994), a copy of which is enclosed with this
decision).
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