Appeal No. 95-2765
Application 08/025,474
JOHN D. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
final rejection of claims 1-14 and 16-25.
The subject matter on appeal is directed to a method
(claims 1-11 and 18-25) of accelerating black and white develop-
ment of negative-type silver halide photographic materials by
contacting the materials, after exposure to an image, with a
developer prebath or developer bath comprising a triazolium
thiolate accelerator compound as defined in formula (I) in the
claims. Composition claims 12-14, 16, and 17 comprising aqueous
solutions of the bath or prebath are also presented in this
appeal.
Copies of representative method claim 1 and composition
claim 12 are reproduced in an attached appendix.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner
are:
Altland et al. (Altland) 4,378,424 Mar. 29, 1983
Kojima et al. (Kojima) 5,037,726 Aug. 6, 1991
The appealed claims stand rejected for obviousness
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