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          Appeal No. 2001-1624                                                        
          Application 09/164,583                                                      

          line 26, to page 24, line 2).  However, "[w]hen the revise key              
          F505 is operated, the copy modes of a registered job are revised            
          but registration of a new job does not take place ."  (Emphasis             
          added.)  (Spec. at 24, lines 5-7.)  To take a word processing               
          example, if a user retrieves an existing document, revises it,              
          and saves it under the same name, this becomes a "revised                   
          document," whereas if the user retrieves an existing document and           
          saves it under a new name, with or without revision, this becomes           
          a "new document" using the common meaning of words.  The examiner           
          has not said how else appellant could claim the invention if                
          there is no difference between a "revised job" and a "new job."             
          Because Gauronski does not disclose saving (registering) the                
          revised job as a "new job," it fails to anticipate the claims on            
          appeal.  Accordingly, the rejection of claims 1-18 is reversed.             
                                      REVERSED                                        



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                         Administrative Patent Judge   )                              
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