Appeal No. 1998-2207
Application No. 08/627,162
material specifically. According to the appellants, the
primary reference to Keem contains no teaching or suggestion
of coating such materials. In the paragraph bridging pages 15
and 16 of the answer, the examiner responds to this argument
in the following manner:
In response to the argument that Keem et al. nowhere
teaches that other types of substrates, other than
the illustrated flat type can be used, it is agreed
that Keem et al. do not specifically mention coating
“particles, fibers, and powders”. However, Keem et
al.
do indicate that “other substrate” materials can be
used and that graphite and plastic substrates can be
used. (See Keem et al. discussed above)
The examiner’s answer does not contain a specific exposition
of an obviousness conclusion regarding the here claimed
materials much less of the supporting rationale therefore.
Nevertheless, it is reasonably clear that the examiner
believes the disclosure of the Keem patent would have
suggested using patentee’s coating process for coating
materials of the type here claimed, namely, particles, fibers,
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