Appeal No. 96-0116
Application No. 08/088,012
Color Prints with Uniform Gloss, Xerox Disclosure Journal,
Vol. 16, No. 1 (January/February 1991).
Claims 1, 4-6 and 10-14 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Ng and Aslam ‘038 in view of
Aslam ‘426, and the remaining claims on appeal are similarly
rejected over various combinations of these references and the
other references listed above.
The examiner’s rejections on this appeal cannot be
sustained.
The dispositive issue before us is framed by the
examiner’s exposition and conclusion of obviousness expressed
on page 4 of the Answer which reads as follows:
Ng and Aslam et al. (‘038) discloses [sic] the
claimed invention except for teaching an overlay image on
top of the underlay image in which the overlay toner is
non-adhesive to the fuser at the release temperature
which affects the release temperature of the fuser.
Aslam et al. (‘426) teaches that it is known to
separate the contact fusing and fusing member which makes
it possible to use a fusing temperature which is
sufficient to cause the toner particles and the polymer
layer on the support to form a fused color toner image
that is adhesively adhered to the support and the fused
image and polymer layer can then be separated from the
fusing member after cooling when they do not offset onto
the fusing member as set forth at col 3, lines 35-46; col
4, lines 10-27, col 6-7.
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