Appeal No. 95-4733
Application No. 08/091,030
problem or any other suggestion for the proposed combination
with Okai.
Similarly, the examiner does not present any teaching,
suggestion or motivation to support the proposed combination
of Rion and Dickinson. Rion teaches a dual coat, coherent5
ceramic layer overlying a substrate where the dual coat
comprises a first coat of an amorphous glass adherent or fused
to the substrate and a second coat of a glass coherent with
the first coat. The first coat is selected so that the
reaction (fusing) and stabilizing is completed to form a
stable base for the second coat (column 3, lines 4-34). The
ultimate dual coat ceramic layer is applied over kitchen or
lavatory appliances (column 4, lines 43-46). The examiner has
stated that “[t]o select the old and well known steel
disclosed by Dickinson would have been well within the purview
of the ordinary artisan in order, for example, to exploit
Dickinson’s steels [sic, steel’s] high strength
characteristics” (Answer, sentence bridging pages 6-7).
5Rion does teach that the first or base glass layer
"fuses" with a substrate such as steel (abstract, Figure 1,
column 2, lines 21-43, and column 3, lines 12-41).
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