Appeal No. 1997-1537
Application No. 08/290,116
Akao (Akao ‘600) 5,026,600 Jun. 25,
1991
Coppens et al. (Coppens) 5,196,290 Mar.
23, 1993
Birr, “Stabilization of Photographic Silver Halide Emulsions,”
The Focal Press, pp. 19-23 and 26, 1974.
All of the appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Coppens, Sewall, Akao ‘600,
Akao ‘906, Birr, Asano and Fessenden.
We refer to the brief and reply brief and to the answer
for a complete exposition of the opposing viewpoints expressed
by the appellants and the examiner concerning the above noted
rejection.
OPINION
For the reasons which follow, we cannot sustain this
rejection.
At best, the references applied by the examiner merely
evince that various features of the independent claim on
appeal are generically known in the prior art as being related
in some fashion to photographic materials generally though not
necessarily in the context of a packaging material for an
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