Appeal No. 95-2765
Application 08/025,474
(35 U.S.C. § 103) in view of Kojima. Additionally, composition
claims 12-14, 16, and 17 stand rejected under the same section of
this statute in view of Altland.
We affirm the examiner’s rejection of composition
claims 12-14, 16, and 17 in view of Kojima. We reverse all other
rejections.
THE REJECTION OF THE COMPOSITION CLAIMS IN VIEW OF KOJIMA
The claimed composition is directed to a developer
prebath or developer bath which comprises an aqueous solution of
a triazolium thiolate accelerator compound in an amount between
10 and 10 moles/L. The bath does not contain any iron (III)-8 -3
ion complex salt having bleaching activity or any nucleating
agent capable of chemically fogging a negative-type silver halide
emulsion. Appealed claim 12 also includes the language that the
“development comprises developing agent selected from the group
consisting of dihydroxybenzenes 3-pyrazolidones, and amino-
phenols” which language, according to appellants, unequivocally
indicates that the developer baths of the claim comprise the
recited developing agents. See the Reply Brief at page 9. It is
reasonably clear, however, that such claim language does not
require that the developer prebaths contain the recited
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