Appeal No. 2002-1710 Page 13
Application No. 09/023,441
"allow[ing] the deletion of downloaded fonts as long as they are not needed for the
current or future pages being printed for the current job," abs., ll. 9-11, and "selectively
delet[ing] previously downloaded temporary or permanent fonts and macros." Col. 2,
ll. 8-10. Deleting data is not tantamount to overwriting data.
The examiner does not allege, let alone show, that the addition of Sasaki cures
the aforementioned deficiency of Kashiwazaki and Brown. Absent a teaching or
suggestion of writing an operating system downloaded from a host computer into an
area of a printer, thereby destroying the operating system previously stored therein, we
are unpersuaded of a prima facie case of obviousness. Therefore, we reverse the
obviousness rejection of claim 2 and of claim 3, which depends therefrom.
C. CLAIM 12
Admitting that "Sasaki fails to teach the printer requesting the downloading," the
examiner finds, "Bringmann teaches that it is well known in the art of printing to allow
the printer to sample of print data associated with the print job from the host to a printer
and analyze the sample print data, and detect inability to select operating system (e.g.[,]
col. 4, lines 23-25)." (Examiner's Answer, § 11, ¶ 3.) He concludes, "it would have
been obvious . . . to provide the printing system as taught by the combination of Sasaki
and Kashiwazaki et al. with the means of Bringmann because of the following reasons:
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