Appeal No. 2001-1306 Page 7
Application No. 08/100,019
packaging. We agree with the Examiner that at least one of the
specific ways of developing the pre-exposed portions prior to
packaging is necessary for the disclosure to be enabling.
Particularly significant are methods of pre-developing the
partially exposed films without affecting the unexposed portions
prior to packaging, which are missing from the disclosure of this
application. Furthermore, Appellant has not provided any
evidence of the commonly known methods of pre-developing
partially exposed film.
As to Appellant’s reliance upon the description and the
depiction of methods of partially exposing and developing films,
as outlined in the brief, we point out that these methods need to
be recognized not only by Appellant, but also by those of
ordinary skill in the art. We further note that the figures
(attachment to the brief, Figures 1 -14) Appellant relies upon
for depicting the corresponding process steps, do not show that
such information had been known to one of ordinary skill in the
art at the time the application was filed. It is not clear from
this record that one of ordinary skill in the art of photography
would have recognized such methods as conventional and well
known. We conclude that those of ordinary skill in the art were
not aware of such methods since, other than Appellant’s own
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