Appeal No. 1997-1663 Page 6
Application No. 08/448,053
method limitations regarding reactant introduction. However,2
the examiner has not explained how the referenced portions of
these applied patents teach and necessarily describe that a
halide salt solution is introduced separately and less than 30
mm from a silver nitrate solution introduction, each
introduced at a rotating mixer inlet surface that is connected
to a rotating mixer outlet surface via at least one flow
channel extending therebetween so as to obtain silver halide
grains having a thickness of 0.145 microns. We note that an
indication that the applied references teach "close together"
(answer, page 4), without a more specific analysis, simply
does not anticipate 30 mm or less.
Indeed, the particular portions of the figures and/or
written disclosures of each of the separately applied
references which the examiner would regard as corresponding to
each of the above-noted claim limitations, such as the
2We are cognizant that appealed claim 3 does not require
a 30 mm or less distance between silver nitrate solution and
halide salt solution introductions but rather the mixing of
these solutions prior to introduction at the inlet surface of
the mixer. However, the examiner similarly does not carry the
burden of explaining how any of the applied references
anticipate under § 102 or render obvious, within the meaning
of § 103, the subject matter of claim 3.
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