Appeal No. 96-3392
Application 08/121,512
Claims 8, 14, and 19 -- Kohyama and Kurokawa
Appellants' arguments regarding claims 8, 14, and 19 are
in the nature of a description of the invention and do not
address the merits of the examiner's rejection. Appellants do
not point to any error in the examiner's reasoning that "[i]t
would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to
a person having ordinary skill in the art to provide the
cleanerless image forming apparatus disclosed in Kohyama with
a sequence controller as disclosed in KUROKAWA ET AL. for the
purpose of minimizing toner [sic] unwanted toner usage" (FR7).
Because appellants have not argued any error in the examiner's
findings of fact or conclusions of law, the rejection of
claims 8, 14, and 19 is sustained.
Claims 20-26, 28, 30-33, 35-39, and 41
Claims 20-22, 24, 31, and 37 -- Yokoyama.
Yokoyama discloses an image forming apparatus having two
two-component developers, for two different colors. Yokoyama
is directed to separating out and collecting the toner from
the first developer that is scraped off in the second
developer. The developers are shown to be of the magnetic
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