Appeal No. 2002-0279
Application No. 09/164,795
Claims 1-4, 6 and 10-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(a) as anticipated by IBM.
Claims 1-4, 6, 7, 9-16 and 20-23 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over IBM. Claim 5 stands
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over IBM in view
of Sobol. Claims 8 and 17-19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as unpatentable over IBM in view of Photoimpact.
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the respective
positions of appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
At the outset, we note that, in accordance with appellants’
grouping at pages 3-4 of the brief, claims 1-6, 8-15 and 17-23
will stand or fall together and claims 7 and 16 will stand or
fall together.
The examiner contends that IBM discloses a preview scan at
page 36, meeting the claim language, “launching a preview scan of
a document creating a preview scan of said document.” The
preview scan area is said to be disclosed at page 37 of IBM, for
a disclosure of the claimed, “displaying said preview scan data
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