Appeal No. 2003-1520 Page 5
Application No. 09/670,146
method disclosed in Wen resizes the digital image before it is printed (col 4, lines 45 to
47). This resized digital image is then printed onto the recording medium. Wen does
not disclose that printing nozzles are deactivated on a line by line basis. While the
examiner is correct that the Wen method prints the data onto the recording medium line
by line, the nozzles themselves are not controlled on a line by line basis.
We have reviewed the disclosure of Sevier and determined that the Sevier
disclosure does not cure the deficiencies noted above of the Wen reference.
In view of the foregoing, we will not sustain the examiner’s rejection of claim 1 or
claim 4 dependent therefrom.
In regard to the remaining rejections of claims 2 and 3 which are dependent on
claim 1, the examiner has improperly found that Wen discloses the deactivation of print
nozzles on a line by line basis as in the rejection discussed above of claim 1. We have
reviewed the disclosures of Paroff and Campbell and determined that these disclosures
do not cure the deficiency noted above of the Wen reference. As such, we will not
sustain the remaining rejections.
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