Appeal 2007-1361
Application 09/681,573
Here, claim 16 recites in pertinent part the following limitations:
(D) route the electronic data file to a converter
configured to convert the electronic data file directly into at
least one of a number of publication formats compatible with a
document management system; and
(E) transmit the at least one converted data file to at least
one publication system capable of publishing the converted data
file in the at least one publication format to the document
management system.
Although the Appellants indicate that these limitations correspond to
Paragraphs 9, 12, and 32 of their Specification (Br. 5-6), they fail to map the
the claimed "converter," "publication system," and "document management
system" to specific items described therein.3
Furthermore, the following omissions of key elements have stymied
our attempt to map the claimed "converter," "publication system," and
"document management system" to specific items described in the
paragraphs cited by the Appellants. The first paragraph cited thereby
discloses "publishing electronic documents to a document management
system" (Specification ¶0009); the last paragraph, a "document management
system's generation of document parameters. . . ." (Id. ¶0032.) Neither
paragraph, however, mentions a "converter," "converting," or a "publication
system."
3 Such a mapping "is [always] considered important to enable the Board to
more quickly determine where the claimed subject matter is described in the
application." M.P.E.P. § 1206.
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