Appeal No. 1998-0847
Application No. 08/483,762
application are claims 17 through 20, which stand allowed by
the
examiner (see the Advisory Action dated June 19, 1997, Paper
No. 17, pages 1-2).
According to appellants, the invention is directed to an
imaging member comprising a charge generation layer and a
contiguous charge transport layer where the transport layer
comprises specified diamine and methane compounds, with
addition of the methane compound reducing or eliminating image
blurring and significantly reducing squeak caused by cleaning
of the image member drum with a cleaning blade (Brief, page
2). Appellants state that the claims
should be grouped in two groups and “the rejected claims
within each Group will stand or fall together.” Brief, page
3. Appellants present reasonably specific, substantive
reasons for the separate patentability of each group (Brief,
pages 5-12). Accordingly, we select claim 1 from Group I and
claim 13 from Group II and decide this appeal as to the ground
of rejection on the basis of these claims alone, to the extent
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