Appeal No. 2000-1085
Application No. 08/980,349
Claims 1 through 7, 10 through 12, 14, 15 and 18 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the combined
disclosures of Bruckner and Okuda. Claims 1 through 12 and 14
through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable
over the combined disclosures of Stahlecker and Okuda.
Upon careful consideration of the opposing arguments and
evidence presented on appeal, we concur with the examiner that
the claimed subject matter as a whole would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art. Accordingly, we will sustain
the examiner’s § 103 rejections for essentially those reasons set
forth in the Answer and below.
The appellant does not dispute the examiner’s finding that
either Bruckner or Stahlecker discloses a conductive pigment
comprising a lamellar or platelet-like substrate coated with a
conductive layer. Compare the Answer, pages 4 and 6, with the
Brief and the Reply Brief in their entirety. The lamellar or
platelet-like substrate material described in Bruckner or
Stahlecker includes mica, kaolin, talc, glass and mica coated
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