Appeal No. 2003-1514 Page 2
Application No. 09/180,038
The appellants’ invention relates to a recording medium cutter and an image
forming device for forming an image on the recording medium, such as recording
paper, and to an image forming device using the recording medium cutter. As
explained on page 1 of appellants’ specification, in image forming devices such as ink
jet printers, the area of a large sized paper sheet is sometimes divided into smaller
segments to arrange smaller size images to make efficient use of the large size paper
sheet. In such cases, normally after the image is formed, the paper sheet is cut into the
segments. Appellants’ invention is particularly directed to the cutting of the paper sheet
into segments around the images after the images have been formed on the sheet. A
copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants’ brief.2
The examiner relied upon the following prior art references in rejecting the
appealed claims:
Hayamizu et al. (Hayamizu) 4,721,058 Jan. 26, 1988
Bay 4,784,318 Nov. 15, 1988
Komatsu 5,042,349 Aug. 27, 1991
Claims 1-10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Hayamizu in view of Komatsu.
2 The examiner indicates on page 3 of the answer that “[c]laim 16 contain(s) substantial errors as
presented in the Appendix to the brief,” but, aside from indicating that the examiner has renumbered claim
16 to be claim 15, the examiner has not pointed out what those errors are and we have not observed any.
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