Appeal No. 1996-0903
Application No. 07/692,211
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1 through 4, 7, 8, 19, 41 through 44, 47,
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and 69. The only other claims still pending in the2
application have been allowed or are considered to be
allowable subject to being rewritten in independent form.
Appellants’ invention relates to “[a] method of making a
printing medium” (claim 41, line 1) and particularly to “[a]
method of making a rotogravure printing medium” (claims 1 and
69, line 1) wherein a plastic composition is deposited on a
member of the printing medium. All of the independent claims
on appeal, namely claims 1, 41 and 69, recite that the plastic
composition is “irreversibly curable” and further that the
plastic composition is “engravable after curing to produce
ink-retaining cells.” Claim 41 is broader than claims 1 and
69 in that it relates to a “printing medium”, generally, and
thus is not limited to a rotogravure type printing medium.
See the examiner’s responses (Paper Nos. 27 and 29) to2
our remand dated August 6, 1998 (Paper No. 26) and our
remand dated March 22, 1999 (Paper No. 28).
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