Appeal No. 1996-2811
Application 08/402,670
Appellants’ invention relates to a ceramic guide rail for
guiding photographic film and paper without adverse effects on
said photographic film and paper. Independent claims 1 and 10
are representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy
of those claims can be found in the Appendix to appellants’
brief.
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Chatterjee et al. 5,290,332 Mar. 1,
1994
(Chatterjee ‘332)
Ghosh et al. 5,336,282 Aug. 9,
1994
(Ghosh ‘282)
Chatterjee et al. 5,358,913 Oct. 25,
1994
(Chatterjee ‘913)
Yoshida et al. 2-187946 Jul. 24,
1990
(Yoshida)
(Japanese Patent)
Claims 1 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Ghosh ‘282 or Chatterjee ‘332 or
‘913 in view of Yoshida.
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