Appeal No. 2001-1568
Application 09/099,078
(b) treating a toner image-bearing surface with a squeezing
member to squeeze said liquid developer layer therefrom; then
(c) treating said toner image-bearing surface with a
voltage impressing member to impart a bias voltage to said-toner
image; then
(d) transferring said toner image from said surface to an
intermediate transfer medium; and then
(e) transferring said transferred toner image from said
intermediate transfer medium to a transfer medium.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Thompson 5,300,990 Apr. 5, 1994
Yoshino et al. (Yoshino) 5,666,616 Sep. 9, 1997
Kusaba et al. (Kusaba) 5,715,510 Feb. 3, 1998
Claims 1-8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Yoshino in view of Kusaba.
Claims 9 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Yoshino in view of Kusaba, and further in
view of Thompson.
For the reasons set forth in the brief, reply brief, and
below, we will reverse each of the above-noted rejections.
OPINION
We go directly to the rebuttal evidence provided by
appellants because we find the evidence rebuts a prima facie case
of obviousness, for the following reasons even if one were to
have been established.
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