Appeal No. 2002-0178
Application 09/385,909
surfactants. Therefore, it would have been obvious to utilize
the surfactants recited in Wong in the invention of Tsutsumi to
arrive at appellants’ claimed invention.
Therefore, we affirm the rejection of claim 29.
XVI. The rejection of claim 33 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over
Tsutsumi in view of Lin
The examiner relies on Lin, which discloses ink jet inks,
for teaching the use of a printer having 600 spi and nozzle size
of 10 to 49 1m, in order to produce an ink image with high
resolution, and refers to column 2 at lines 14-17 of Lin.
The examiner states that it would have been obvious to use a
printer with Lin’s specific spi and nozzle size when printing the
ink of Tsutsumi in order to produce a high resolution image. We
find that sufficient motivation exists in this regard. We
therefore affirm the rejection of claim 33.
XVII. Conclusion
All the art rejections are affirmed except for the
rejections of claim 16 (claim 16 was rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 over Collins in view of either Puschak or
Villiger, and claim 16 was also rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
over Tsutsumi in view of Puschak or Villiger).
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