Appeal No. 2005-2632 7
Application No. 09/768,736
may be associated with each of the first and second plate cylinders 4a, 4b, in order to
apply ink to the printing plates (not shown) mounted on each of the plate cylinders 4a,
4b,” we agree with the examiner that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill
in the art at the time of appellants’ invention to utilize short-train anilox inkers in the
newspaper printing press of Richards to transfer ink to the plate cylinders (4a, 4b).
Appellants’ own evidence supplied with the appeal brief filed January 30, 2004 and
referred to on page 6 of the corrected brief, i.e., the excerpt from the HANDBOOK OF
PRINT MEDIA, belies appellants’ argument that there is no motivation to combine the
anilox inker of John with the newspaper printing press of Richards. At page 216, column
2, of the Handbook, it is specifically noted that newspaper presses, like that in Richards,
which have lower print quality demands than commercial presses, use ink-zone-free
short inking units or “anilox inking units” of the type seen in Fig. 2.1-11, because such
inking units have a simpler design than conventional inking units and offer the great
advantage that the inking unit is in stable equilibrium after only a few revolutions due to
the low ink storage capacity.
In accordance with the foregoing discussions, we will sustain the examiner’s
rejection of independent claims 1 and 14 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a).
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