Appeal No. 2005-0436
Application No. 09/185,212
837 F.2d 1071, 1074, 5 USPQ2d 1596, 1598 (Fed. Cir. 1988). Here,
we find the Examiner’s reliance on the teachings of Suzuki and
Tanaka to be reasonable and sufficient to support a prima facie
case of obviousness. In particular, we find that Suzuki
discloses a print control system wherein the information related
to the image data of each page is processed, stored and sent to a
printer. We are not convinced by Appellants’ argument that
processing of the image data on a page or job basis of Suzuki may
be distinguished from the claimed “image basis” of the inputted
image data because the claims require sub-page images (reply
brief, page 4). Appellants particularly rely on the disclosed
details of the image data in pages 42, 44 and 53 of the
specification for concluding that the claimed image data input
refers to sub-page-images (reply brief, pages 4-7).
Reviewing these pages of the specification reveals that the
image data of one page could include multiple images (page 42,
lines 9-12). However, other parts of the specification refer to
ID information for identifying “each page of the image” that has
been processed (page 44) or processing images of documents (page
53). Although a page of the image or images of a document relate
to the output after the input request and input completion steps
are finished, there is nothing in the specification that requires
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