Appeal No. 2002-0585
Application No. 09/088,307
appellants, the references teach away from the instant claimed
invention.
It appears to us, from the abstract of Palmatier (“A
register mark error sensor provides an adjustment control signal
indicating that the plate cylinder should be adjusted”), from
column 3, lines 43-45, of Palmatier (“...adjusts the angular
position of the corresponding one of the plate
cylinders...relative to the corresponding one of the blanket
cylinders”), and from column 4, lines 4-6, of Palmatier (“Each of
the register mark sensors...provides a respective register mark
error signal on a respective signal line...), that Palmatier
does, indeed, provide for adjustment of registration, or
“coordinating an angular position...,” as broadly set forth in
instant claim 31.
Because the examiner appears to have set forth a reasonable
case of obviousness which has not been overcome by any convincing
argument by appellants, we will sustain the rejection of claims
31 and 32 under 35 U.S.C. 103.
We will not, however, sustain the rejection of claims 2-12
and 21-30 under 35 U.S.C. 103 because these claims require
changes in controller parameters and/or wherein the controller is
a PID controller. The mere reliance on APA for a showing that
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