Appeal No. 2005-0436
Application No. 09/185,212
Morikawa 5,960,247 Sep. 28, 1999
(filed Nov. 10, 1997)
Kusumoto 6,088,135 Jul. 11, 2000
(filed Oct. 9, 1997)
Claim 1-4, 6-10, 12, 14-17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Suzuki and Tanaka.
Claim 11 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Suzuki, Tanaka and Morikawa.
Claim 13 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Suzuki, Tanaka and Kusumoto.
We make reference to the answer (Paper No. 23, mailed August
12, 2003) for the Examiner’s complete reasoning in support of the
rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 22, filed May 16, 2003)
and the reply brief (Paper No. 24, filed October 6, 2003) for
Appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
With respect to the rejection of claims 1-4, 6-10, 12, 14-17
over Suzuki and Tanaka, Appellants argue that Suzuki controls the
print system on a “page by page” basis which constitute the
entire content of a page of a print job (brief, page 21).
Appellants assert that such teachings are not related to the
composition for a plurality of input image data required to form
a page and is different from the claimed managing the process for
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