Appeal No. 95-2830
Application No. 07/967,617
This application is remanded to the examiner to consider
the rejection of the claimed invention as unpatentable over
Yokogawa alone. As we discussed above, there is a close
parallel relationship between the teachings of Yokogawa and
the claimed invention. The distinction between them lies in
the presence of a bridging group W-NR - being present in
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Yokogawa patent and absent in the claimed invention. It
appears to the Board that appellants definition of Z, the
fiber reactive group, may include the bridging group required
by Yokogawa. The examiner is referred to the teaching of
appellants' specification at page 4, in the last paragraph.
Appellants therein define the fiber reactive group as
including, "those formed by combination thereof through a
suitable bridging group." Based upon this definition of the
fiber forming group, the examiner should determine whether the
fiber reactive group Z as defined by appellant would be
inclusive of the bridging group required by Yokogawa.
DECISION
The rejection of claims 1, 2, 5 through 9, 11 and 12 as
unpatentable over Yokogawa (5,478,936) in view of Pedrazzi
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
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