Appeal No. 1997-2839
Application No. 08/448,778
Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1553, 220 USPQ 303, 312-13 (Fed. Cir.
1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
Marazzi '684 and Marazzi '467 simply do not teach
apparatus for continuously feeding a web "at speeds of at
least 100 ft./min." to the nip of two cylinders for transfer
of a foil to the web's toner pattern as is called for in
appellant's claims on appeal. Marazzi '684 teaches apparatus
transferring foil to a
pattern at the nip of two cylinders capable of operating at
speeds of commercially available printers or copiers, however
this is not suggestive of an apparatus feeding a web at speeds
of at least 100 ft./min. Hanson teaches ion deposition and
laser printers, but does not describe printing on a continuous
web at speeds of at least 100 ft./min.
For these reasons, it does not appear to us that the
suggested combination of these prior art references, as
proposed by the examiner, would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the relevant art having the references
before him, or would yield the apparatus defined in
appellant's claims on appeal.
It follows that we cannot sustain the examiner's
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