Appeal No. 1998-2418
Application No. 08/686,883
the assembled references teaches the claimed combination"
(brief, pages 21 and 22). In response, the examiner notes
"Jones clearly
teaches the article (36) contacts the top and bottom of the
container (Figure 4)" (answer, page 12).
In our view the examiner has not taken into account that
the claim recites a specific article, an ink roller with
flanges and a porous sleeve, which when combined with the
other claimed features provides the ink roller oriented with
respect to the remaining elements. As urged by appellant
"[a]ccording to the invention the claimed combination in
certain claims relates to an oriented ink roller. No
reference teaches this feature . . . . The point is that in
the prior art there was no teaching of orienting anything . .
. The orienting of the ink roller is not only for the purpose
of making the ink roller easy to remove, but moreover for
making the ink roller easy to remove without getting ink on
the user's hands" (brief, page 24). We agree.
In our view the proposed modification of the disclosed
prior art does not provide appellant's oriented ink roller in
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