Appeal No. 2002-0279
Application No. 09/164,795
on a monitor connected to said computer system.” Page 37 of IBM
is also said to disclose a user defined box in the prescanned
image, meeting the claim language, “selecting a region of
interest from said preview scan data displayed on said monitor.”
The examiner points to the checked “Export to application” box
near the prescan area, at page 37 of IBM to show that the scanner
software initiates export when a final scan is initiated. This
is said to meet the claimed, “receiving, into a memory in said
computer system, an input signal, wherein said input signal
selects said software application, and further wherein said
software application was previously loaded into said memory in
said computer system.” The examiner maintains that IBM discloses
a final scan, from the scanner software, corresponding to a
selected region, pointing to page 36, item Prescan, and page 37,
user selected area and OK button. This is said to meet the
claimed, “launching, with said scanner software, a final scan of
said document creating said image data, wherein said image data
of said document corresponds to said selected region of
interest.” The examiner further explains that it is inherent
within scanner software operating in a computer environment to
temporarily store scanned images within the memory of a computer
prior to further action, meeting the claimed, “receiving said
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