Appeal No. 2002-2258
Application No. 09/134,977
document sets 46 for mailing, where each of sets 46 corresponds
to a particular mailpiece and includes a control document CD and
any associated pages P. Page 13, lines 1 through 7 of the
specification discusses briefly the flow chart functional block
element 178 (Figure 3B) which indicates that the APR program 43
causes a data processing system 42 to retrieve the original data
for document sets 46 associated with misprocessed mailpieces and
regenerates such document sets 46. Lines 27 through 32 of page
13 teaches that the control document can be a freight bill used
to control conventional automated picking systems to assemble
small items or packages to form a package for delivery.
With all of this in mind, it is apparent to us that the
“control document” of the claims on appeal comprises a tangible
or physical document associated with tangible, physical
mailpieces in claims 15 through 19 and 21 through 26. In claim
27, the control documents relate to an assembled group instead of
mailpieces per se. The systems of all claims on appeal relate to
specifications or information “on” regenerated control documents
as a control functionality.
As noted by appellant at the bottom of page 4 of the reply
brief, specification page 5, lines 19 and 20 state “[a]s used
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