Appeal No. 1998-3131 Page 6
Application No. 08/192,224
• claims 1-9 and 14
• claim 15.
Claims 1-9 and 14
The examiner asserts, "Chan teaches thin 'film transducer
substrates (16) includes a plurality of heater resistor
transducer elements (20) spaced around an elongated ink feed
slot (22)' (Fig. 1, col. 2, lines 58-60, col. 3, lines 34-37)
to meet the limitation of a flexible circuit (substrate
16/Chan) ...." (Examiner's Answer at 6.) The appellant
argues, "Item 16 in Chan is not a flexible circuit." (Reply
Br. at 3.)
Claims 1-9 specify in pertinent part the following
limitations: "a flexible circuit attached to the print head
and shaped to define with the pen body a part of the first ink
circulation passageway ...." Similarly, claim 14 specifies in
pertinent part the following limitations: "a flexible circuit
member covering the print head and shaped to define with the
body and the print head, part of the ink passageway ...."
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