Appeal No. 2003-0549 Page 4
Application No. 09/149,408
(b) a user interface comprising a graphical display of an image for a
plurality of pages of said original electronic document and an icon
representing a page subject to a formatting change applied through said
interface, said interface enabling a computer user to cause said printing
device to print said copy of said original electronic document and to
change the format of a page, but not all pages of said copy, by applying,
at least, one of the following formatting changes to said page:
(1) change paper stock;
(2) duplex printing;
(3) simplex printing;
(4) mirroring of an image;
(5) rotation of image;
(6) negation of image;
(7) zoom;
(8) n-up printing;
(9) guttering;
(10) print multiple copies of said page;
(11) leave said page unprinted; and
(12) overlaying a watermark on said page.
Claims 1, 5, and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as anticipated by
U.S. Patent No. 6,262,732 ("Coleman"). Claims 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over Coleman and U.S. Patent No. 5,751,286 ("Barber").
Claims 11 and 15 stand rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over Coleman and U.S.
Patent No. 5,634,091 ("Sands"). Claims 16 and 20 stand rejected under § 103(a) as
obvious over Coleman and U.S. Patent No. 5,301,262 ("Kashiwagi").
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