Appeal No. 2002-2034
Application No. 09/175,080
“following” or where the context of the claim makes it a
necessity.
For claim 1, it is required that “image information” be
“automatically transmitted” to “each of said predetermined
destinations” and “said additional destination” “following said
step of entering said additional destination.” We therefore agree
with the appellant that the image information transfer must occur
to all of the destinations “each” after the entry of the pre-
programmed dialing group and an additional destination, at least
for claim 1.
The question raised for review, presented squarely, is
whether the following passage (column 3, line 65 - column 4, line
10) anticipates the transmission order parameters of the claim:
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the operation panel 35 in FIG. 1.
In the diagram, the operation panel comprises a ten-key
group 40 for entering [the] telephone number or the like of a
destination, a display portion 41 for displaying instructions
of operation procedure, destination telephone number or the
like, a transmission key 42 for giving an instruction of
transmission start after an original is set or destinations
are specified, an interruption key 43 for giving an
instruction of additional destinations for the broadcast
transmission, a broadcast transmission key 44 for effecting a
broadcast transmission, and a non-transmission key 45 for
giving an instruction not to transmit image data of a
predetermined area.
While the Fukushima reference clearly teaches all of the
pertinent steps of the claimed invention, and we agree with the
examiner that the “prescribed sequence of actions in Fukushima is
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