Appeal No. 98-2743 Page 6
Application No. 08/504,100
such a disparate context to be fairly suggestive of either (1)
adding a peptizer or peptizing agent to the process of AAPA
(while still retaining the volatile organic solvent) or (2)
substituting a peptizing agent or peptizer for the volatile
organic solvent of the process of AAPA.
As to Rejection (1), the examiner has additionally relied
on Sonobe for a teaching of utilizing nitrile rubber in liquid
form in the manufacture of an ink transferring surface, but
this reference does nothing to overcome the deficiencies of
AAPA and Muller that we have noted above.
The examiner's rejections of claims 19-23 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) are both reversed.
REVERSED
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