Appeal No. 97-1453
Application No. 08/196,672
stand withdrawn from consideration. A copy of illustrative
claim 1 is appended to this decision.
In addition to the admitted prior art found in
appellant's specification, the examiner relies upon the
following references as evidence of obviousness:
Koike et al. (Koike) 4,948,719 Aug. 14, 1990
Ueno et al. (Ueno) 5,318,943 June 7, 1994
(filed May 22, 1992)
Appellant's claimed invention is directed to a recording
sheet for receiving printed images of an aqueous ink
comprising a coating having an additive material selected from
the recited compounds, e.g., oxazole compounds. The coating
may optionally contain a binder selected from polysaccharides
or quaternary acrylic copolymer latexes. According to
appellant, the image-receiving coatings of the present
invention exhibit rapid drying times when imaged with aqueous
ink and reduced curling subsequent to being imaged with an
aqueous ink.
Appealed claims 1-5 and 7-11 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Koike. Claims 1
and 3-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Ueno. In addition, claim 36 stands rejected
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