Appeal No. 2001-1624
Application 09/164,583
kept (EA10), or that "the new job must be or [sic, of] a nature
to include the old job plus the revised one" (EA11).
Appellant refers to the description of the new registration
key F503 registering a selected job as a new job with or without
revision and the revise key F505 revising the copy modes of a
registered, but not yet processed job, but registration of a new
job does not take place (RBr4). It is argued that one of
ordinary skill in the art would clearly understand from the
disclosure the difference between a revised (edited) job and the
registration of a "new job" (RBr4).
We conclude that the examiner erred in interpreting the
revised job in Gauronski to be a "new job." There is clearly a
semantic distinction between a "revised job," the same job but
changed, modified, or edited in some way, and a "new job," a job
which has just been created. Contrary to the examiner's
findings, the specification clearly distinguishes between a "new
job," created by revising an existing job, and a "revised job."
As shown in Fig. 8, there are separate paths for "New" and
"Revise." As shown in Fig. 11, there is a separate new
registration key F503, a delete key F504, a revise key F505, and
an end key F506 for use in connection with selection of a job
that is already registered (spec. at 23, lines 23-26). The new
registration key F503 is pressed when the selected job is
registered as a new job with or without revision (spec. at 23,
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