Appeal No. 1999-2572
Application 08/419,678
have made but chose not to make in the brief have not been
considered [see 37 CFR
§ 1.192(a)].
With respect to representative, independent claim 1,
the examiner finds that Kohei teaches the claimed invention
except that Kohei does not teach the nozzle arrays being
arranged in an inclined manner along the sub-scanning
direction and the nozzles being spaced by a distance which is
larger than a printing width. Zandian is cited as teaching
nozzle arrays being arranged in an inclined manner. Chan is
cited as teaching that the spacing between nozzle arrays is
not limited to the distance of one dot row. The examiner
indicates that the claimed invention would have been obvious
to the artisan in view of the collective teachings of Kohei,
Zandian and Chan [answer, pages 3-5].
Appellants argue that Zandian and Chan fail to cure
the admitted deficiencies of Kohei. Appellants also argue
that there is no motivation to modify the nozzle spacing in
Chan from “preferably” one to “at least two” printing widths.
Finally, appellants argue that there is no motivation to
modify Zandian’s nozzle format with the teachings of Chan
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