Appeal No. 2006-1279
Application No. 10/249,005
references to "the content" of the sealed envelope throughout the
patent reasonably suggests that the envelope's entire content is
detected -- not just portions of the content [answer, pages 3, 6,
and 7, emphasis added].
We will not sustain the examiner's rejection of claims 1-3
and 9. We disagree with the examiner that Berson teaches or
suggests detecting the entire document content using a detector
sensor as claimed in independent claims 1 and 9.
Berson teaches directing a light source through a sealed
envelope and detecting printed matter 42 on an insert in the
envelope with an optical detector. Printed matter is in the form
of a shape, code, or an address block [Berson, col. 3, lines 39-
49 and Fig. 2]. Following detection, image detector and analysis
system 28 then determines whether a predetermined form, code, or
address block was detected. In one embodiment, a printer is
controlled to print the address on the sealed envelope that
matches the address on the envelope's contents [Berson, col. 3,
line 65 - col. 4, line 7]. In another embodiment, the image
detector and analysis system determines whether the envelope's
contents represent a check, a reply, or an urgent message based
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