Appeal No. 1996-2853
Application 08/375,272
With regard to rejection citing Tsuchino, Appellants
argue:
As argued with respect to the disclosure of
Arakawa, the resin filled in the phosphor
layer should be a cured resin. The cured
resin in Appellant’s stimulable phosphor
layer fills in pores or cracks formed in
the sintered or deposited phosphor layer so
fast that mechanical strength of the
phosphor layer can be increased and the
radiation image-forming characteristics can
be improved. Generally employed binder
resins such as those described in Tsuchino
et al. are noncurable resins, and these
noncurable resins cannot impart such
improvements as those provided by the cured
resin to Appellants’ phosphor layer.
(Reply brief-page 4.)
The Examiner states:
If the examples of suitable resinous
materials found at page 21 do not
constitute curable resins as claimed, then
the use of resins of the type claimed in
the radiation image storage panel of
Tsuchino et al. would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art in view of
their ready availability and known
properties. (Answer-page 5.)
The Examiner has not alleged the resins of Tsuchino to be
cured resins. On the other hand, Appellants have stated that
Tsuchino’s resins are not cured resins. We must therefore
assume that Tsuchino’s resins are not cured. Thus we must
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