Appeal No. 1997-1663 Page 5
Application No. 08/448,053
applied references describes each and every element as set
forth in the claims, either expressly or inherently, as
required of an anticipating disclosure in a single prior art
reference. See Verdegaal Bros. Inc. v. Union Oil Co., 814
F.2d 628, 631, 2 USPQ2d 1051, 1053 (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied,
484 U.S. 827 (1987). Claim 1 calls for a method of
producing silver halide grains having a maximum thickness of
0.145 microns wherein; (1) a mixer is rotated; (2) the rotated
mixer is required to have (a) an inlet surface, (b) an outlet
surface and (c) at least one flow channel extending from the
inlet surface to the outlet surface; (3) silver nitrate
solution is introduced at the inlet surface of the mixer; and
(4) a halide salt solution is introduced at the mixer inlet
surface within 30 mm of the introduction of the silver nitrate
solution.
The examiner, for example, particularly refers to figure
5(b) of Saitou and figure 2 of Mumaw (answer, page 5) as
disclosing or inherently possessing reactant introduction
points less than 30 mm apart that correspond to the claimed
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