Appeal No. 95-4513
Application 08/261,667
ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING
Appellants request that we reconsider our decision mailed
on
September 25, 1998 wherein we affirmed the rejection of claims
1-6 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Koboshi.
Appellants argue (request, page 1) that they find in the
record no concession that “[t]here is no dispute as to whether
Koboshi discloses developing step (a) in appellants’ claim 1”
as stated on page 4 of our decision. Appellants did not argue
in their briefs that Koboshi does not disclose step (a) of
their claim 1 and do not make that argument in their request
for rehearing.
Appellants argue that Koboshi teaches that image
amplification should not be used with a bleaching step
(request, page 1). In support of this argument, appellants
rely upon the portion of Koboshi which states: “To wit, the
inventors have found that the bleaching of silver with
hydrogen peroxide can not take place within the region in
which the image is amplified, and that it can only take place
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