Appeal No. 2006-3134
Application No. 10/157,603
BACKGROUND
The Appellants’ invention relates to a method and apparatus for formatting
documents. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1 which is reproduced below.
1. A processor-readable medium comprising processor
executable instructions configured for:
receiving an electronic document from a device;
receiving processing instructions from the device, the processing
instructions being associated with the electronic document and containing
information regarding how to process the electronic document;
reformatting the electronic document pursuant to the information
contained in the processing instructions; and
providing the reformatted electronic document to a destination
device.
PRIOR ART
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims is:
Sahota et al. (Sahota) 2001/0056460 A1 December 27, 2001
REJECTIONS
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the Examiner and the
Appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Examiner's
answer (mailed May 12, 2006) for the reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
Appellants’ brief (filed Mar. 6, 2006) and reply brief (filed Jul. 12, 2006) for the
arguments thereagainst.
Claims 1-37 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Sahota.
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