Appeal No. 2001-1210 Page 2
Application No. 09/255,990
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a method for two-sided printing of a sheet of
printing material having a front side and a rear side, in a sheet-fed rotary printing press
(specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to
the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Wood 1,089,453 Mar. 10, 1914
Dietz et al. (Dietz) 3,586,437 June 22, 1971
Grindley et al. (Grindley) 4,082,037 April 4, 1978
Wirz 5,259,308 Nov. 9, 1993
Takeuchi 5,642,670 July 1, 1997
The following four rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 set forth in the final rejection
are before us in this appeal:
(1) Claims 1, 4 and 10 to 12 as being unpatentable over Wood in view of Grindley;
(2) Claims 2, 3 and 6 to 8 as being unpatentable over Wood in view of Grindley and
Wirz;
(3) Claim 5 as being unpatentable over Wood in view of Grindley and Takeuchi; and
(4) Claim 9 as being unpatentable over Wood in view of Grindley and Dietz.
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007