Appeal No. 1997-1513
Application No. 08/249,736
that the disclosures of Ogino establish a prima facie case of
obviousness for the subject matter defined by appealed claim
13. We recognize that appellants have asked for separate
consideration of each of the dependent claims on appeal. We
have reviewed the subject matter defined by these claims.
However, we agree with the examiner's implicit conclusion that
such subject matter would have been prima facie obvious in
view of the teachings of Ogino. In this regard, appellants'
dependent claims simply define features that are either
expressly disclosed in Ogino or at least prima facie obvious
from the disclosures of this reference. For example,
dependent claim 2 simply defines appellants' disazo dye
represented by appellants' formula (I) as a copper complex
salt. Not only does Ogino indicate that his metal-containing
dyes represented by his formula (I) include metal selected
from copper, Ogino shows numerous examples of these copper
dyes. See the dyes represented by the structural formula
numbers 1 through 8 at pages 10 and 11 of Ogino. Respecting
dependent claim 4 which calls for the combination of one kind
of disazo dye represented by appellants' formula (I) and two
kinds of dyes selected from appellants' group [C], we again
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