THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION
The opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is
not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
____________
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
____________
Ex parte IZURU MATSUI and KAZUFUMI TOMITA
____________
Appeal No. 96-0473
Application No. 08/082,7271
____________
HEARD: August 03, 1999
____________
Before METZ, WALTZ, and SPIEGEL, Administrative Patent Judges.
SPIEGEL, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner's final rejection of claims
1 through 7, which are all of the claims pending in this application. Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. A microcapsule toner comprising a core containing a fixable component,
and provided thereon a shell, wherein the fixable component has a micro phase
separation structure composed of a liquid continuous phase and a disperse phase
containing a resin and having a glass transition temperature of not higher than 20EC,
and said fixable component contains a block and/or graft copolymer comprising two or
more monomer components, at least one of the
1Application for patent filed June 28, 1993.
Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007