Appeal No. 1999-1002
Application No. 08/672,493
pending in this application.
The subject matter on appeal is adequately illustrated by
independent claim 17, a copy of which taken from the
appellants' brief is appended to this decision.
All of the claims on appeal stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated due to the claimed
invention having been on sale and/or in public use more than
one year prior to the filing date of the application. In the
alternative, the examiner has rejected all of the claims on
appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over the subject
matter which was in public use and/or on sale more than one
year prior to the application filing date.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method for
manufacturing a polymeric printing member (or fuser roll) for
use in a printing machine (or xerographic copier). The method
comprises the steps of coating a substrate by rotating the
substrate about its longitudinal axis and applying to the
substrate a coating from an applicator in a stream whereby the
dynamics of the rotation of the substrate and the position of
the stream on the substrate assist in the uniform distribution
of the coating onto the substrate.
and should be corrected to "said substrate".
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