Appeal No. 2001-0345
Application 09/041,416
printing form, and dipole and multi-pole moments directed
opposite the charges of the printing form, to the printing form
so that the toner particles are attracted to the entire surface
of the printing form to form a layer; controlling the thickness
of the layer of liquid toner particles by controlling one of
voltage and time during the charging step; fixing the liquid
toner particles with a source of energy in accordance with a
picture to be printed; one of removing and breaking down non-
fixed liquid toner particles to change ink acceptance behavior of
the layer; and erasing the printing form as a whole, after an end
of a printing process, by removing the fixed liquid toner
particles.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Back 3,607,255 Sep. 21, 1971
Tomanek 3,650,797 Mar. 21, 1972
Raschke et al. (Raschke) 3,921,527 Nov. 25, 1975
Peterson 4,020,762 May 3, 1977
Chu et al. (Chu) 4,103,616 Aug. 1, 1978
Calabrese et al. (Calabrese) 4,705,696 Nov. 10, 1987
Doyle (EPA) 0 099 264 Jan. 25, 1984
All claims on appeal, claims 1-10, 12-22, and 29 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness, the
examiner relies upon Doyle in view of Raschke and Calabrese as to
claims 1-10, 12-14, 19, 20, 22, and 29. To this initial
combination of references, the examiner has separately added Back
as to claim 15, Chu as to claims 16 and 17, Peterson as to claim
18 and Tomanek as to claim 21.
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