Appeal No. 1997-2308
Application 08/504,266
have been indicated allowable. In the examiner’s answer 2
(pages 2
and 4) the examiner withdrew the rejection of claims 25, 29,
31 and 32 and stated that the claims are objected to as being
dependent upon a rejected base claim.
THE INVENTION
Appellants claim an ink jet printing process wherein the
recording sheet includes a substrate having on at least one
surface thereof an image receiving coating containing a
biocide selected from a recited group. Claim 15 is
illustrative and reads as follows:
15. A printing process which comprises (1) incorporating
into an ink jet printing apparatus containing an aqueous ink a
recording sheet which comprises a substrate and an image
receiving coating situated on at least one surface of the
substrate, said entire image receiving coating containing a
biocide, and (2) causing droplets of the ink to be ejected in
an imagewise pattern onto the recording sheet, thereby
generating images on the recording sheet, wherein the biocide
is
5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, 2-methyl-4-
isothiazolin-3-one, 2-(thiocyanomethylthio) benzothiazole,
2 The sole basis for allowance of claims 5, 18 and 19 is
the presence of the quaternary acrylic copolymer latex binder
(final rejection mailed on July 9, 1996, paper no. 8, page 3).
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