Appeal No. 96-3946
Application No. 08/208,317
uppermost layer, and thereby teaches away from additional
drying of the medium after printing. Therefore, the
examiner's statement that Miyamoto desires to dry the ink
lacks basis in the reference.
We do agree with the examiner that Ayers suggests to the
skilled artisan that ordinarily a recording medium needs to be
dried after printing, and that known methods include microwave
drying. However, since Miyamoto specifies a medium that dries
immediately without external drying means, adding a microwave
drying step to Miyamoto's method would appear to be contrary
to the teachings of Miyamoto. Therefore, it would not have
been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to add a
microwave drying step to Miyamoto. Accordingly, the examiner
has failed to establish a prima facie case of obviousness, and
we cannot maintain the rejections of claim 13 and claims 14
through 24 and 31, which depend from claim 13.
For the addition of biocides and antistatic agents, for
claims 25, 26, 29, and 30, the examiner submits (Answer, pages
8-9) that Vieira teaches in column 7, line 67-column 8, line
4,
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