Appeal No. 1998-0488
Application No. 08/496,234
remote suggestion within any of the applied references for
forming a process black registration mark in such a specific
location. Although the examiner concludes that "it would have
been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art at the
time the invention was made to select and evaluate any desired
mark relative to any other mark in Brunner for register
evaluation and correction, including those which are
conventionally formed by printer black or process black"
[answer, page 14], there is no evidence on this record that a
process black registration mark should be formed and examined
in the manner recited in claim 1. Therefore, we do not
sustain the rejection of claims 1-4.
With respect to independent claim 5, we find teachings
in the applied prior art that three separate color printing
stations can cooperate to produce process black and that
misregistration of the printing stations can be determined by
individually comparing each color printed with a corresponding
printer black mark, however, we find no teaching of the
printing stations having registration images positioned
thereon that will produce a process black registration mark as
recited in claim 5. Although the examiner asserts that
11
Page: Previous 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007