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`FOLEY 8.: LARDNER
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`Pieae find beiow andfor attached an Office commieafion canceming this application or proceeding.
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`PRINTING INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA
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`I Applicantts) Application No.
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`VOGT ET AL.
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`w The MAILING DATE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address —-
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`14E] Acknowledgment is made ofa claim for domestic priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(8) (to a provisional application).
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`Office Action Summary
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`A SHORTEN ED STATUTORY PERIOD FOR REPLY IS SET TO EXPERE _3_ MONTH{S) FROM
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`Extensions of time may be available under me provisions oIET CFi-‘t 1 136(3) In no event, however may a reply be timely filed
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`It the period tor reply specified above‘It: iess than thirty (30) days, a reply wilhiIn the statutory minimum of thirty (an) days will be considered timely.
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`ll NO period for repiyES sondfied above. the maximum statutory period wiil apply and will oxplre Six (6) MONTHS Iron: the mailing date of this communication;
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`- Any reply received by the Office later than tlrree months atterthe mailing date of this mmmunlcation, even if timely filed, may reduce any
`earned patent term adtustment. See :37 CFR 1.70463}.
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`1):! Responsive to communication(s) filed on
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`2b): This action ls non-finai.
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`3N3 Since this application is in condition for ailowance except for format matters, prosecution as to the merits is
`closed in accordance with the practice under EX pane Quayle. 1935 (1D. 11. 453 0.6. 213.
`Disposition of Claims
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`ME Clalm(s) inis/are pending in the application.
`4a} or the above cialmts) m.___._ islare withdrawn from consideration.
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`5). Claimls) 193g is/are aliowed.
`B)l:] Clalm(s) 1 3.5 and 7—9 is/are rejected.
`THE] Claimts) 2.4 and 6 islare objected to.
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`em Claimls) _____ are subject to restriction andlor election requirement.
`Application Papers
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`Qlfl The specification is objected to by the Examiner.
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`islarc: a)l:] accepted or bjtj objected to by the Examiner.
`10):] The drawing(s) filed on
`Applicant may not request that any objection to the drawingts) be held in abeyance. See 37' CPR 1..85(a)
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`is: a)it] approved)5)[J disapproved by the Examiner.
`11%] The proposed drawing correction filed on
`If approved, con-acted drawings are requiredIn reply to this Oft‘ce aclion.
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`12K] The oath or declaration'Is objected to by the Examiner.
`Priority under 35 U.S.C §§ 119 and 120
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`13M] Acknowledgment:5 made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 US C. § 119(aa){d) or (f).
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`LC] Certified copies of the priority documents have been received.
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`2!: Certified copies of the priority documents have been received in Application No.
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`3E} Copies of the certified copies ofthe priority documents have been received in this National Stage
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`pplication/Controi Number: 09/365,365
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`Detailed Action
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`-_The fotlowing is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 USE. 102 that
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`form the basis for the rejections undet this section made in this Office action:
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`A person shall be entitled to a patent unless —
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`(e) the invention was described in a patent granted on an application for patent by another filed in the
`United States before the invention thereof by the applicanttcr patent, or on an international apptication
`by another who has tolfilted the requirements of paragraphs (1), (2). and (4) of section 371(c) of this
`title before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent.
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`The changes made to 35 U.S.C. 102(e) by the American inventors Protection Act
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`of 1999 {NEDA} do not apply to the examination of this application as the application
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`being examined was not (t ) filed on or after November 29, 2000, or {2) votuntarity
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`published under 35 U.S.C. 122(b)‘ Therefore, this application is examined under 35
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`13.8.8. 302(e) prior to the amendment hythe AIPA (pre—AIPA 85 U.S.C. 102{e)}.
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`The changes made to 35 U.S.C. 102(e) by the American Inventors Protection Act
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`of 1999 {AlPAJ do not apply to the examination of this application as the application
`being examined was not (1) fited on or after November 29, 2000, or (2) voluntarily
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`published under 35 U.S.C. 122(b). Therefore, this application is examined under 35
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`U.S.C. 102(e) prior to the amendment by the AIPA (pre~AIPA 35 U.S.C. 102(9)).
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`Claims ’1, 3 and 7 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) as being anticipated by-
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`With respect to ciaim ‘l, Nusbickel teaches a printing and publishing system which
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`generates a printing piate~ready fiie from data provided remotely in rest time using a
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`_ communication network, the printing and publishing system comprising: an end user
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`faoiiity (109) coupled to a communication network 107,
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`the end user faoliity providing
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`page buiiding operations (from Web Browser 111 according to col. 4, lines 16-46), the
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`page buliding operations including the design and construction of pages from images,
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`furtherlcomprise generating a Postscript fiie {GiFlfl for operating over the "
`communication network 107.
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`text. and data availabte via the communication network, see screen 200 in figure 2,
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`Nusbickei teaches a central service facility (101) coupled to said communication
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`network 107 . the centre; service faciiity providing storage, tile processing, remote
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`access (communication over the Internet), content management operations {WEB
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`Browser appiications); the tile processing operations including generating a plate-ready
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`file from pages designed at said end user facility (i.e.. multimedia fiie) said plate-ready
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`file having a fiie format capable of high resolution and ready for creation of a printing
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`plate and a printing company facility (701 indirectly connected to said commonication
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`network), the printing company faciiity providing printing operations (fax operations}, the
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`printing operations including printing from the pn‘nting piste (file designated by the
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`Browser) from said ready file (via format 713}
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`With respect to claim 3, Nosoickel teaches wherein said file processing operations
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`Appiicationz’Controi Number: 09/366,365
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`With respect to ciaim 7’, Nusbickei teaches wherein the centrai service facility
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`further comprises a communication routing device coupling the centrai service taciiity
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`to the communication network, a server which performs content management
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`operations, and storage devices which contain eiectronic flies. See col. 5,1ines 50-60
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`and co}. 4. tines 7-15.
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`The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103(3) which forms the basis for all
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`Deviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
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`(a) A patent may not he obtained though the invention is not identicaiiy discicssd or described as set
`forth in section 102 of this ttfle, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and
`the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the
`invention was made to a person having ordinary skiit in the art to which said subject matter pertains.
`Patentabiiity shat! not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made.
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`Claims 5, 8 and 9 rejected under 35 U.S.CA 103(3) as being unpatentahle over
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`Nusbickei in view of the Wei? Known Prior Art 2144.03 iofficiai notice).
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`Nusbickel teaches all of the subject matter upon which the claims depend except for
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`the specific language that the communication network has to be a WAN. switched
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`network or an ATM type netirvorit. Nusbickei cleariy shows a network it}? which
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`happens to be an interest network. However, it is wet] known to one of ordinary skiil
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`in the art of image transmission and communication of images that images can be
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`transmitted over various type of networks. Furthermore, it is well known to transmit data
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`over switched packet networks, WANs and ATM.
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`Hence, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to simply reptace
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`the network provided by Nusbickel with a WAN, ATM or packet switched network for
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`I the purpose of routing printing information from and end userto a printing publishing
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`system, as suggested by Nusbickel.
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`Claims 2, 4 and B are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base
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`ciaim, but wooid be allowable if rewritten in independent form inctuding all of the
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`limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
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`Ciaims 3040 are allowed.
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`Ciaims 10-15 are altowed for the reason the prior art'dces not teach or suggest in
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`claimed combination, “.,. parsing said thin Postscript file to extract data associated with
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`low resoiution images and repiace with high resolution data, thereby forming a fat
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`Postscript file... creating a portable document format file from the fat Postscript file and
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`converting said PDF fife to a fiie in plate ready ion-net." _
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`Ctaims fits-20 are allowed for
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`the reason the prior art does not teach or suggest in :
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`ctaimed combination, “... generating low resotution files corresponding to said high '
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`resolution tiles. providing said low resolution files to a remote client for the designing of
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`a page layout via a communication network.“ generating a plate-ready file from the
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`page layout designed by said remote client."
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`Any inquiry concerning this communication should be directed to Jerome Grant
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`Any inqoiry concerning this communicaiion or earlier communications from the
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`examiner should be directed to Jerome Grant ll whose telephone number is 703—335—
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`4391. The examiner can normally be reached on Mon—Fri. from 9:00 to 5:00.
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`if attempts to reach the examiner by telephone are unsuccessful, the examiner's
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`supervisor, David K. Moore, can be reached on (T03) 308—7452. The fax phone number
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`for the organization where this application or proceeding-is assigned is 703672—9314.
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`Any inquiry of a general nature or relating to the status of this application or.
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`proceeding should be directed to the receptionist whosestelephone number is 703—305-
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`ApplicationlConlroi No‘
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