Ex parte MAYO et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1997-4107                                                        
          Application No. 08/510,730                                                  


          X-ray powder diffraction trace having a major peak at Bragg                 
          angles of 6.5, and minor peaks at 7.5, 15.2, 15.7, and 26.5                 
          degrees 21, and Type V tetrafluoro hydroxygallium                           
          phthalocyanine with an X-ray powder diffraction trace having a              
          major peak at Bragg angles of 6.6 and minor peaks at 6.0,                   
          13.4, 14.7, 15.9, 16.9, 26.1, and 27.0 degrees 21.                          
                                                                                     
                              THE REFERENCES OF RECORD                                
               As evidence to support the rejection, the examiner relies              
          upon the following references.                                              
          National Bureau of Standards, “Tables for Conversion of X-ray               
          Diffraction Angles to Interplanar Spacing,”  (9/1950)                       
          Washington,  US Government Printing Office,  pp. 1, 7, 21, 27,              
          41, 47, 61, 67, 81, 87, 101, and 107.                                       
          Klug, Harold and Leroy Alexander.  X-ray Diffraction                        
          Procedures,  (1974) New York: John Wiley and Sons. p. 69.                   
          Cullity, B. D., Elements of X-ray Diffraction. (1978) Reading,              
          MA:  Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., pp. 3, 4, and 21.                 
          Ladd, M. and R. Palmer.  Structure Determination by X-ray                   
          Crystallography,  (1985) New York: Plenum Press.  pp. 120-124.              
                                                                                     
                                   THE REJECTIONS                                     
               Claims 1, 2, 5 through 17, and 19 through 25 stand                     
          rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being                  
          indefinite for failing to particularly point out and                        
          distinctly claim the subject matter which applicants regard as              
          the invention.                                                              


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