Appeal No. 1997-0195
Application 08/126,987
Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and reads as follows:
1. A photographic assemblage comprising:
a silver halide photographic light-sensitive element comprising at least one sulfur
and gold sensitized silver halide emulsion layer, said element comprising chlorinated s-
triazine hardeners and chemical compounds containing cyano groups, and
a closed vessel in which the element is closed and stored at a constant relative
humidity,
characterized in that the element contains, in a silver halide emulsion layer and/or
an adjacent layer thereto, divalent or tetravalent palladium salt as scavenger for HCN gas
released from the element.
I. References
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Kadowaki et al. (Kadowaki) 4,618,570 Oct. 21, 1986
Harbison et al. (Harbison) 4,892,808 Jan. 9, 1990
European Patent Application (Ikenoue) 0,439,069 A2 Jul. 31, 1991
Patent Abstracts of Japan, ABS Grp No. P654, Vol. 12, No. 8 (Jan. 12, 1988),
abstracting Japanese Patent No. 62-168,143 (Ishikawa).2
2Although the statement of rejection in the Examiner’s Answer refers to Japanese
Patent 62-168,143, the examiner relies only on the Patent Abstract and appellants’
description of the Japanese patent at page 2, lines 1-5, of the instant specification.
Examiner’s answer, page 4, lines 13-17. The Patent & Trademark Office translation is not
of record in this application. Under these circumstances, we have not reviewed the
contents of the Japanese patent or of the translation. Rather, our review has been
restricted to the abstract and the description in the instant specification of the Japanese
patent.
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