Appeal No. 2004-1067
Application No. 09/773,292
presented in the answer, the appellants’ argument regarding
dependent claim 26 is likewise not persuasive.
Finally, we discern no convincing merit in the appellants’
position that “[p]atentee neither teaches nor suggests that blue
reactive dyes of the specific formula (2) [i.e., which is recited
in claim 25 and which corresponds to Luttringer’s formula (7)]
are compatible with blue reactive dyes of the specific formula
(3) [i.e., which is recited in claim 25 and which corresponds to
Luttringer’s formula (5)]” (brief, page 10, last paragraph). We
agree completely with the examiner’s well taken point (see the
first full paragraph on page 7 of the answer) that patentee’s
above discussed disclosure concerning the use of at least one of
formula (5), (6) or (7) would have suggested the compatibility of
all these dyes with one another.
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