Appeal No. 2000-0290 Page 3
Application No. 08/670,805
filed July 13, 1999) for the appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellants' specification and
claims, to the applied prior art (i.e., AAPA), and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determinations which follow.
In accordance with 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), we have selected
claim 10 as the representative claim from the appellants'
grouping of claims 5, 10 and 11 to decide the appeal on the
rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103. See page 2 of the
appellants' brief.
Claim 10 reads as follows:
A method for producing a fixation roll used in an
electrophotographic apparatus, said fixation roll
comprising an annular wall having a fluorocarbon coating
provided on an exterior surface thereof, a longitudinally
extending primary bore and a plurality of secondary bores
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