Appeal No. 2001-1855
Application No. 08/897,440
Claims 29 and 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Hamanaka, Wolf, and applicants’ admitted prior art (APA) (specification p. 2, ll. 7-
18; Figs. 55 and 56).
Claims 31 and 32 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Hamanaka, Wolf, Ohmura, and APA.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 6) and the Examiner’s Answer (Paper
No. 13) for a statement of the examiner's position and to the Brief (Paper No. 12) for
appellants’ position with respect to the claims which stand rejected.
OPINION
Appellants disclose a digital color copying machine that includes a memory 624
(Fig. 3) storing binary data in the forms of patterns for patterning processing. (Spec. at
16, ll. 17-24.) The machine also includes a texture memory 622 (Fig. 3; Fig. 17) that
stores the image of a texture document (a document with a pattern to be registered).
The data stored in the texture memory is used for processing of texture patterning of a
color document. (Id. at 35, ll. 2-14.) A user may enter a registration mode by selection
from the menu shown in Figure 22, bringing up the menu of Figure 35. (Id. at 44, ll. 23-
24.) A menu for texture registration is depicted in Figure 37. As detailed in the
specification at page 46, line 21 through page 49, line 3, a user may place a document
with a texture pattern to be registered on the machine platen. By manipulation of the
menu selection, a user may scan a texture pattern from the document and register the
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