Appeal No. 2003-1052
Application 09/222,644
column 1 and the initial third of the discussion at column 7 in
Kara. This is significant because Kara shows in Fig. 3 and
discusses generally the use of scanning bar code information in
the examiner-referenced discussion at column 9, line 53 through
column 10, line 3. Additionally, the examiner's reliance upon
column 16 also indicates that such bar code information is
generated by the addressee zip code information. Thus, the
weight of the evidence appears to us to indicate that Kara may be
fairly characterized by the artisan as being an open system
consistent with the manner which appellants argue this. The
artisan therefore would not regard the scanning and the inclusion
of addressee zip code information in the indicia to be printed on
a mailpiece as comprising a closed system postage meter arrange-
ment of any kind.
For similar reasons, we must conclude the same about
Cordery, which appellants most strenuously argue in the brief
and reply brief. Fig. 1 in Cordery shows generally the first
embodiment of his invention. This figure shows the mailer unit
there in more detail in Fig. 3, the data center components in
Fig. 4 and the post office components in Fig. 5. The second
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