Appeal No. 2006-1279
Application No. 10/249,005
obviousness.
Nevertheless, all of the limitations of claim 4 fully read
on Berson except for the decontamination system. We first note
that Berson's system is capable of illuminating the entire
document within the envelope even if the document is folded.
Also, the printer of Berson that prints the address and other
information on the mail piece is capable of printing a "new hard
copy version" of the document given the limitation's broadest
reasonable interpretation. In short, printing a new hard copy
version of a document does not necessarily require printing the
entire document content, but rather merely a new version of the
document that could include differing amounts of the original
document content. Thus, a new version of the document could be
merely a portion of the document's content, such as the address
or other information on the mail piece as taught by Berson.
Furthermore, the image transmitter of Berson is capable of
transmitting a detected document to a recipient as claimed given
the term's broadest reasonable interpretation. We agree with the
examiner that the term "recipient" does not necessarily mean
"addressee," but includes "any person, company, agency, or other
entity that receives the content" [answer, page 5]. Moreover,
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