Appeal No. 2005-1629
Application No. 10/001,256
and in the Decision at pages 6-8, namely that any use of a surfactant/penetrant involves
a balancing or trade-off of properties such as enhanced color vs. lessening color
bleeding. Anton at col. 8, ll. 40-46, merely teaches a similar balancing of properties as
taught by Sano. Furthermore, as discussed above and in the Decision (page 8), the
amount of penetrant used will greatly influence the desired properties.
With regard to issue III, appellants argue that Sano describes the claimed
penetrating agent as being preferred only for alginate-containing inks, and thus there
would have been no expectation of improved results for other ink compositions
(Request, page 5). Additionally, appellants argue that even if the expectation of
improved properties extended to other ink compositions, there was no expectation of
advantageous properties such as improved cohesion differential, gloss differential,
glossiness, and ejection stability (id., citing the Watanabe Declaration filed Nov. 10,
2003).
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