Appeal No. 96-2797
Application No. 08/432,474
With the exception of claim 8, which appellants request
separate consideration for, the claims stand or fall together.
The examiner correctly indicates that the Fabian patent
discloses a method of reactivating a deactivated anode which
comprises a substrate having thereon an anode coating of noble
metal or noble metal oxide, comprising the step of depositing
on the anode coating a reactivating coating of a noble metal
selected from the group consisting of platinum, iridium,
rhodium, palladium, ruthenium, osmium, and mixtures thereof to
form a reactivated anode. See the Abstract and column 2,
lines 1-8 and lines 62-66.
The examiner’s anticipation rejection of the appealed
claims is based on an interpretation of the Fabian patent,
which refers to and incorporates certain disclosures from U.S.
Patent No. 3,711,385 to Beer and U.S. Patent No. 3,632,498 to
de Nora at column 2, line 63 through column 3, line 1 as
follows:
In each of the embodiments the valve
metal members 1 in reticulated mesh, rod or
other form are provided with an
electrically conducting electrocatalytic
coating which
is applied and baked on as described, for
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