Appeal 2007-0781
Application 10/003,150
Basing printing costs on attributes of a document is also well known.
The specification gives no particular definition to the term “attributes” as it
is used in the claims. The broadest reasonable construction of the term in
light of the Specification as interpreted by one of ordinary skill in the art is
that it covers properties of the document, such as its color. It is common
knowledge that the printing costs for a document in color is greater than if
printed in black and white. Given this knowledge, determining printing costs
for printing full-sized documents based upon its attributes, like color, would
have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art.
Finally, determining printing costs for a full size document given a
scaled-down version is well within the knowledge of one having ordinary
skill in the printing service field. Printing service shops commonly make
these sorts of estimates for customers.
In our view, the claimed features of a network-based printing service
retrieving a scaled-down version of a full-sized document to be printed from
at least one store via a network and a printing service determining printing
costs for printing the full-sized document based upon attributes of the
scaled-down version appear to be a combination of the familiar elements of
printers retrieving scaled-down versions of a full-sized document over a
network, basing printing costs on attributes of a document, and determining
printing costs for a full size document given a scaled-down version. The
claimed method appears to be the result of combining these well known
features with Garfinkle’s printing service. “The combination of familiar
elements according to known methods is likely to be obvious when it does
no more than yield predictable results.” KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex Inc.,
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