Appeal No. 95-4857
Application 08/101,000
contain a high loading of carbon black particles to prevent
buildup of an electrostatic charge (col. 6, lines 9 to 23).
This disclosure would have motivated one of ordinary skill in
the art to provide carbon black particles in the fluorine-
containing resin inner layer of Igarashi for the same purpose.
The resistivity and concentration of additive recited in
claims 5 and 6 would have been obvious matters of choice,
selected to achieve the desirable result taught by Press.
Conclusion
The examiner's decision to reject claims 1 and 4 to
9 is reversed. Claims 1 and 4 to 9 are rejected pursuant to
37 CFR § 1.196(b).
This decision contains new grounds of rejection
pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b) (amended effective Dec. 1, 1997,
by final rule notice, 62 Fed. Reg. 53,131, 53,197 (Oct. 10,
1997),
1203 Off. Gaz. Pat. and Trademark Office 63, 122 (Oct. 21,
1997)). 37 CFR § 1.196(b) provides that "[a] new ground of
rejection shall not be considered final for purposes of judi-
cial review."
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