Appeal No. 2005-2186
Application No. 09/750,664
Thus, the examiner’s position that claims 1-3 are indefinite
is unfounded. Accordingly, we shall not sustain the standing
35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, rejection of these claims.
II. The 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection
Hochberg pertains to combination coating-writing heads used
in printing systems wherein energy (e.g., electric current, heat,
light) is applied to a reactive coating on a print medium such as
paper to form marks thereon. For purposes of the rejection, the
examiner focuses on the embodiment illustrated in Figures 2A and
2B. The subject printing head 30 includes a series of wires 40
associated with a common electrode 42 for applying electric
currents to coated paper, and a plurality of orifices 44 in
communication with a plenum chamber 46 containing a pressurized
aerosol mist solution for coating the paper immediately prior to
the marking operation. As implied by the depictions of the
printing head 30 in Figures 2A and 2B, the wires 40, electrode 42
and orifices 44 ostensibly lie on a surface of the printing head
which is concavely configured to complement the convex surface of
a roller 22 backing the paper.
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