Appeal No. 1998-0668
Application 08/036,650
specified printing parameters" (col. 3, lines 29-32) and,
therefore, teaches that both the color atlas and the image
should be printed under the same printing conditions.
The difference between Phillips and the subject matter
of claims 20 and 21 is that Phillips does not disclose
printing on a textile substrate. The Examiner finds that
Appellant's APA teaches, at pages 1-2 of the specification,
that it was well known in the art to print multicolor images
on a textile substrate using inks on top of each other and
the Examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to
one having ordinary skill in the art to use the process
taught in Phillips to print on textile substrates (FR4;
EA4-5).
We agree that the APA discloses that it was known to
print on textile substrates and agree that this teaching
would have motivated one of ordinary skill in the printing
art to print on textile substrates using the procedure
taught in Phillips. Appellant does not address the
teachings of the APA.
Appellant argues that Phillips is devoid of any
teaching of printing on textile substrates (Br6). It is
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