Appeal No. 1999-1565
Application No. 08/494,227
the structure of one reference into another would be feasible,
rather than merely a conceptual combination, and that tubular
piezogenerators and plate shaped piezoactuators are so unlike
that an artisan would not proceed in the manner set forth by
the Examiner.
In the rejection the Examiner stated that it would have4
been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art to have a
plurality of printer modules comprising module plates, plate
shaped piezoelectric actuators and columns of nozzles in the
Kattner head, as taught by Suzuki, for the purpose of
providing a novel ink-jet printing head which can be compact
and simply constructed at low cost.
In the answer the Examiner asserts that the test for5
obviousness is not whether the features of a secondary
reference may be bodily incorporated into the structure of the
primary reference, nor that the claimed invention must be
expressly suggested in any one or all of the references, but
that combination of the teaching of the references would have
suggested the claimed invention to one skilled in the art.
4Answer, page 3.
5At pages 5-6.
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