Appeal No. 2001-0345
Application 09/041,416
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the
examiner, reference is made to the brief and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We sustain all the separately stated rejections of all the
claims on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
At the top of page 8 of the brief, appellants indicate that
all claims fall together. More significantly, however, no
arguments are presented in the remaining pages of the brief as
to any separate claim on appeal. As such, we take as a
representative claim, for purposes of rendering this decision,
claim 1 on appeal. Substantive arguments are presented by
appellants only as to Doyle, Raschke and Calabrese.
We note initially that the conventional approach for
electrophotographic printing systems is to first place an
electrical charge on the substrate, then fix or image it
selectively, followed by the application of toner. In contrast
to this approach, the subject matter of the disclosed and claimed
invention requires the substrate to be charged over its entire
surface, the application of toner (in liquid form) on the
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