Appeal No. 1998-3320
Application 08/417,017
OPINION
We affirm the rejection of all claims except claim 15.
The appellants state that the claims stand or fall in the
following groups: 1) claims 1-13, 2) claims 14, 16 and 17,
3) claim 15 and 4) claims 18-20 (brief, page 3). We therefore
limit our discussion to one claim in each group, i.e., claims
1, 14, 15 and 18. See In re Ochiai, 71 F.3d 1565, 1566 n.2,
37 USPQ2d 1127, 1129 n.2 (Fed. Cir. 1995); 37 CFR
§ 1.192(c)(7)(1997).
Rejection of claims 1-13
Tsunaga discloses “an electrical conductive powder
consisting of copper particles, a silver coating material
coating a part or the total of the surface of the copper
particles and a titanate coupling agent combined to the copper
particles and/or the silver coating material” (col. 2, lines
5-10). Because the appellants’ conductive pigment can be2
metallic powders (specification, page 3, lines 28-30) and
Tsunaga’s copper particles preferably have a mean diameter of
2-15 Fm (col. 2, lines 19-21), which is within the appellants’
The appellants’ organic modifying agent can be a titanate (specification, page 5, lines 3-11).2
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