Appeal No. 2001-2578
Application No. 08/977,547
Plakosh relates to a high-volume printer server including a
buffer manager which accepts data streams and controls the
storage of data on spool or image pool/buffer (col. 4, line 65 to
col. 5, line 8). Although we agree with the Examiner (answer,
page 13) that Plakosh compresses the data stream in the buffer
manager before sending the data to the printer (col. 5, lines 60-
65), the buffer does not include the recited user definable
variable specifying a device name for a virtual printer.
Additionally, Plakosh does not teach the claimed communication
across the application layer to print to a virtual device and
therefore, cannot cure the deficiencies of Smith as discussed
above. Accordingly, the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claims 5, 8
and 10 over Smith and Plakosh is not sustained.
Turning now to the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claim 8 over
Smith, Klotzbach and Plakosh, we rely on our discussion of the
references above and note that the combination fails to overcome
the above discussed deficiencies of the applied prior art.
Therefore, the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claim 8 over Smith,
Klotzbach and Plakosh cannot be sustained.
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