The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ______________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _______________ Ex parte DALE T. PLATTETER, JUDY C. BOSSO AND ROBERT S. WESTFALL _______________ Appeal No. 2006-0621 Application No. 09/938,237 _______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH, and BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judges. JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-21, which constitute all the claims pending in this application. The disclosed invention pertains to a document processing system having a marking engine that marks a sheet, a resource that transfers the sheet to the marking engine or receives the sheet from the marking engine, and a control bus for interconnecting the marking engine and the resource. APage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007