Appeal No. 96-3650
Application No. 08/222,547
in the application.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method for
preventing the migration of air bubbles from a first chamber
region of a reservoir to a second chamber region of the
reservoir comprising the step of partitioning the reservoir
with a fluid permeable member which defines a fluid permeable
boundary between the first chamber region and the second
chamber region as set forth in independent claim 16. The
appealed subject matter also relates to a method for applying
liquid material from a supply to an applicator roller
comprising a number of steps which are set forth in
independent claim 19. A copy of the appealed claims appear in
the Appendix of the appellant’s brief.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Zimmer 4,538,541 Sep. 3, 1985
Bruno 4,821,672 Apr. 18, 1989
Claims 16 through 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Bruno in view of Zimmer. In the
last paragraph on page 4 of the answer, the examiner expresses
his obviousness conclusion in the following manner:
It would have been obvious to one having
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