Appeal No. 95-0015
Application No. 07/869,694
THE REFERENCES
Hirabayashi et al. 4,892,807 Jan. 9, 1990
(Hirabayashi)
Mihara et al. 5,149,619 Sep. 22, 1992
(Mihara)(continuation of application filed Nov. 14, 1989)
Johnson et al. 5,164,292 Nov. 17, 1992
(Johnson) (filed Dec. 27, 1990)
J. M. Harbison and H. E. Spencer, “Chemical Sensitization and
Environmental Effects”, in The Theory of the Photographic Process
149 (T. H. James ed., Macmillan Publishing Co., 4th ed. 1977)
(James).
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-3, 5, 6 and 8-17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Mihara in view of Johnson, James
and Hirabayashi.
OPINION
We have carefully considered all of the arguments advanced
by appellant and the examiner and agree with the examiner that
appellant’s claimed invention would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellant’s invention
over the applied prior art. Accordingly, the aforementioned
rejection will be affirmed.
Appellant’s claimed invention is a method for sensitizing
tabular silver bromoiodide grains or silver bromide grains doped
with selenium or iridium by contacting the grains with a
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