Appeal No. 2003-0237
Application No. 09/157,895
figure 4) relied upon by the examiner (answer, page 6) describes
a block flowchart of an edit subsystem that “describes the logic
associated with the interactive generation of a specific form
design and form specification” (col. 5, lines 35-37). Millman
discloses:
[T]he Edit subsystem creates the environment that
permits the rapid entry of selected form attributes and
the interactive review of a generated form on a display
screen by the user. In addition, certain device
configurations, e.g., the printer, are selected and
stored in memory in conjunction with the form file.
[col. 5, lines 37-42]
* * *
The final subroutine depicted in FIG. 4 is directed to
modifying the print driver, test 470 and the options
pertaining thereto, block 480. [col. 5, lines 57-59]
The examiner argues (answer, pages 6-7):
It would have been obvious to have modified the
printing system of Shaw by using the text editor to
create or modify a text based DLL [dynamic link
library] with new features in a software program of
print driver as taught by Millman. The suggestion of
modifying the system of Shaw can be reasoned by one of
ordinary skill in the art as set forth by Millman
because Millman teaches a data processing apparatus
that supports the engineering of complex forms on an
interactive basis wherein the user selectively enters
form constraint information in an iterative fashion.
The embedded values are associated with industry
standard form parameters defining the appropriate
attributes. This dramatically reduces the errors
associated with forms during and after final
productions.
The examiner further argues that “Millman teaches the step of
creating a print driver using the text editor for modifying
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