Appeal No. 98-2743 Page 2
Application No. 08/504,100
We REVERSE.
The appellant's invention pertains to a porous inking
member for impact printers. Independent claim 19 is further
illustrative of the appealed subject matter and a copy thereof
may be found as an attachment to the brief under the heading of
"CLAIMS ON APPEAL."
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Muller 4,410,643 Oct. 18,
1983
Sonobe et al. 5,099,759 Mar. 31,
1992
(Sonobe)
The appellant's admitted prior art depicted in Fig. 2 and
described on pages 1, 2 and 6-9 of the specification (AAPA).
The claims on appeal stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) in the following manner:
(1) Claims 19-23 as being unpatentable over AAPA in view
of Sonobe and Muller; and
(2) Claims 19-23 as being unpatentable over AAPA in view
of Sonobe.
With respect to Rejection (2) the answer states that:
AAPA teaches the invention except for the porous ink
member containing a peptizer. Muller teaches adding
peptizer during the mixing process in order to aide
[sic, aid] in the process of masticating the rubber
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