Appeal No. 2001-0241
Application No. 08/997,373
sensitivity image reproducibility and removability of a non-image
portion" (sentence bridging pages 5 and 6 of specification).
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
follows:
(1) claims 1-6, 11, 14 and 15 over Nishikawa in view of
Dickie;
(2) claims 7 and 8 over Nishikawa in view of Dickie and
Kawamura;
(3) claim 12 over Nishikawa in view of Dickie and Meier;
(4) claim 13 over Nishikawa in view of Dickie and Dueber;
and
(5) claims 1, 3-6, 9-11 and 13-15 over Lauke in view of
Nippon.
Appellants submit at page 3 of the principal brief that
"[t]he claims all stand or fall separately." However, pages
13-19 of appellants' principal brief fails to set forth
substantive reasoning why any separately listed claim would have
been nonobvious to one of ordinary skill in the art in view of
the applied prior art and the examiner's analysis thereof.
Rather, appellants simply present the legal conclusion that the
cited references neither disclose nor suggest the features of the
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