Appeal No. 1999-1565
Application No. 08/494,227
lessen the size of a printhead having widely spaced
piezoelectric tube drivers, and that if one employs a planar,
plate-like structure such as in Suzuki, the nozzle openings
are then already much more closely spaced together than is
possible in Kattner, and therefore the reason for using the
plate 4 of the Kattner reference is eliminated. Appellants
thereby submit that the Examiner's position in combining the
references in this regard was based upon Appellants'
disclosure.
Appellants further argue (brief, page 8) that one skilled
in this art would have had no motivation or inducement to
consult
prior art which is known to be less compact than the Suzuki
structure.
Lastly, Appellants assert (brief, pages 8 and 9)that
modifying Kattner in view of Suzuki, as presented by the
Examiner in his rejection, involves more leaps of the
imagination than modifying Suzuki in view of Kattner, as
Kattner is directed to tubular piezoactuators as opposed to
plate shaped piezoactuators. Appellants then submit that it
is incumbent on the Examiner to demonstrate that incorporating
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