Appeal 2007-0666
Application 09/738,992
II. ISSUE
Rather than reiterate the positions of the parties in toto, we focus on
an issue therebetween. The Examiner makes the following admission about
Carleton and assertion about Simonoff.
Carleton in view of Tran doesn't expressly teach, but Simonoff
teaches communicate data representing the identified
annotation images to each workstation to permit an annotation
entered at a first workstation to the hardcopy document and an
annotation entered at a second workstation to the hardcopy
document to be distributed to the plurality of workstations.
For example, Simonoff discloses users at dissimilar computers
can annotate the information presented to all users (col 1,
lines 20-25).
(Answer 4.) He adds the following assertions about Cass.
Cass further discloses the claimed limitation of communicate
data representing the identified annotation images to each
workstation. For example, Cass discloses in Fig 14, an instance
of a document (item 700) where the user wants to input to an
image of a document that was faxed to the processor and is
unmarked (col 14, lines 25-30), and Fig 15 shows an instance
(item 800') of document (item 700) which is a marked instance
(item 810, item 820) of the document (col 14, lines 31-40).
Cass further discloses a user situated at a fax machine located
remotely to a host computer that is in connection with the web,
where the computer runs software to support the Paper Web
browser. The computer retrieves a Web page and faxes a
hardcopy to the retrieved page to the user. The user marks the
hardcopy (i.e., circles, underlines or other drawings) and then
the user faxes the hardcopy marked back to the computer
(col 16, lines 50-64; Fig 20 shows the printed web page marked
by the user). Once the marked copy is saved as a document,
another user can come later on and retrieve the web page and
generate the hardcopy of the retrieved page that was marked by
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