Appeal No. 98-0978
Application 08/505,650
Love. According to the examiner, Kanck teaches the method
steps as recited in claim 1 with the exception of the use of
an endless web. The examiner is further of the opinion that
Love teaches a method similar to Kanck with the provision of
using an endless web. The examiner notes that Love does not
show a material hardenable by heat. The examiner reaches the
conclusion that:
[i]t would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art to provide the
method of Kanck with an endless web in view
of Love to print a continuous image and
eliminate printing gaps and shocks caused
by conventional cylinder mounted printing
plates
and immediately make a new transfer element
so as to print an image longer than the
length of the web [Examiner's Answer,
page 5].
The examiner is further of the opinion that Kanck and Love
also would have rendered obvious the apparatus claim 10 to the
extent that claim 10 claims the step of enabling formation of
a new intermediate transfer element. According to the
examiner, this does not require the actual formation of the
element but only that the web of Love would have been able to
perform this function due to its thermal inertia properties.
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