Appeal No. 2002-0585
Application No. 09/088,307
We turn now to the rejection of claims 31 and 32 under
35 U.S.C. 103.
It is the examiner’s position that Palmatier teaches the
recited structure, including a web 12, cylinder print groups 20,
30, 40, 50, motors 34, 44, 54, using a control system 70 to
control the motors to maintain preset angular positions of the
cylinders, and wherein the velocity of one of the cylinder groups
is used as a disturbance variable to generate a command variable
for controlling/correcting the speed of the other print groups to
bring them back into the press.
The examiner admits that Palmatier is not clear as to
presetting the typical register deviation as a function of the
disturbance variable in a form of at least one characteristic,
and it is not clear as to exactly what is meant by this language.
But, the examiner contends, Palmatier does directly relate the
angular position of the plate cylinder with the velocity of the
press.
Moreover, the examiner contends, Anselrode teaches “this
concept to speed up print processes for repeat jobs” [answer-
pages 5-6]. The examiner concludes that it would have been
obvious “to have so controlled the Palmatier...system for the
same reasons” [answer-page 6]. The examiner further points to
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