Appeal No. 2003-1774
Application No. 09/797,038
taken in the related application and in a decision dated
September 30, 2002, the Board reversed the examiner’s rejection
of the appealed claims under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph.
Appellants’ claimed invention is directed to a
photoconductor comprising, inter alia, a charge transport layer
comprising acetosol yellow 5GLS and the butylated reaction
product of p-cresol and dicyclopentadiene. The reaction product
is an antioxidant and is commercially available as WINGSTAY L
HLS. According to appellants, the “advantages of this invention
are largely eliminating light fatigue of the photoconductor while
realizing the physical and cost advantages of DEH” (DEH is p-
diethylamino-benzaldehyde-(diphenylhydrazone)) (page 3 of
principal brief, second paragraph).
Appealed claims 1-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph.
In addition, the appealed claims stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
(a) Claims 1-7 over Anderson in view of the admitted
prior art, Mori, Niimi, Williams and Cottman;
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