Appeal No. 96-1478
Application 08/232,459
(filed May 3, 1991)
Claims 1-8 and 10-15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Kato and Iwasaki.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 19) and the
Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 25) (pages referred to as
"EA__") for a statement of the examiner's position and to
the Brief (Paper No. 24) (pages referred to as "Br__") and
the Reply Brief (Paper No. 27) (pages referred to as
"RBr__") for a statement of appellants' position.
OPINION
Figure 2 of Kato shows a CRT structure which appears
structurally very similar to appellants' figure 1. Kato
discloses carbon stripes 3 of a black matrix applied to the
inner surface of the face plate of the CRT; the stripes and
open portions of the face plate between the stripes are
covered by a film 4 whose main component is aluminum oxide
(Al O ); and phosphor stripes 5R, 5G, 5B are formed on the
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film 4 between the black stripes. Kato discloses that the
Al O film has a thickness "ranging from 0.2 µm to 3 µm after
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of Iwasaki. See 37 CFR § 1.55 (translation required for
applications not in the English language when necessary to
overcome the date of a reference relied upon by the examiner).
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