Appeal No. 2003-1052
Application 09/222,644
We emphasize again that on the basis of the arguments and
overall evidence before us, the artisan would have recognized the
teachings of Cordery and Kara as being open systems thus making
them unable to teach or suggest the closed system postage meter
environment of the claims on appeal. There is no evidence before
the filing date of this application that closed systems
embraced/included scanning addressee information and caused it to
be included in or otherwise corresponded to a postal code printed
on a mailpiece. Stated differently, there is no evidence before
us that the general distinctions in the art that apparently
existed before the filing date of the present application would
have matured to the point of the artisan considering Cordery's
system as a closed system notwithstanding the fact that there
appeared to be movement in the development of the art such that
previous distinctions between open and closed systems were
becoming somewhat blurred.
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