Appeal No. 2005-0620
Application 10/010,202
1127, 1129 n.2 (Fed. Cir. 1995); 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(1997).
Franke discloses a transfer sheet comprising a carrier
sheet, a one- or multi-colored pattern printed on the carrier
sheet using a digitally controlled color printer, and a
white-pigmented elastomer layer of a polymer having a high
plasticizing point printed configuratively on the pattern
(page 3, lines 28-36). The only method Franke discloses for
applying the white-pigmented elastomer layer is screen printing
(page 12, lines 3-7; page 17, lines 34-35).
The digitally controlled color printers disclosed in the
appellants’ specification are an electrophotographic printer and
an ink jet printer (page 1, lines 18-20; page 18, lines 10-17).
Franke discloses that in addition to a polyurethane component of
the white pigmented elastomer layer, other thermoplastic resins
may be used (page 15, lines 6-11). Thermoplastic resins are the
type of material applied using an electrophotographic printer.1
Franke also discloses that the white pigmented elastomer layer
can be applied from an organic or aqueous solution, which is the
1 See 8 Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology 796
(John Wiley & Sons, 3rd ed. 1979), a copy of which is provided to
the appellants with this decision.
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