Appeal No. 2003-0549 Page 9
Application No. 09/149,408
the original electronic document, we are unpersuaded of a prima facie case of
obviousness. Therefore, we reverse the obviousness rejections of claim 6; of claims 7-
10, which depend therefrom; of claim 11; of claim 15, which depends therefrom; of claim
16; and of claim 20, which depends therefrom.
B. CLAIM 21
Rather than reiterate the positions of the examiner or the appellants in toto, we
focus on the following points of contention therebetween:
- receiving a copy of a document
- reformatting a page of the copy
1. Receiving a Copy of a Document
The examiner makes the following findings.
[I]t is extremely well known in the computer processing art that the
"original" of a document is stored in the hard drive or disk drive of the
computer system. If a user wishes to print or make changes to (or format)
the original document or parts of the original document, a "copy" or
"replica" of that document or pages of that document are transmitted from
the disk drive to a temporary RAM or a display buffer and displayed to the
user from that RAM or display buffer. The original remains on the disk
drive while the printing or changes are made on the replica. After the user
prints or makes changes to the copy or replica of that original, the user
has the option of either saving the changes made (in which case a new file
can be created) or deleting the replica, in which case the "original" is
preserved.
(Examiner's Answer at 11.) The appellants argue, "when a user invokes a prior art
printing interface from an application program to print an electronic document, a copy of
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