Appeal No. 96-2528
Application 08/011,202
regions disclosed which have been characterized as being
multiply connected with multiplicity of n and having a (n-1)-
fold rotational symmetry around a previously recited one
direction. It is, according to the disclosure, proper to
interpret the language at the end of line 11 of claim 12
reciting “said channel regions” as “said channel region.” It
is the channel region 1 according to Figures 1 and 2 and
specification, page 2, lines
21-23 and page 7, lines 10-12 which has the recited
properties. The amendment filed on December 27, 1994
introduces the plural version of region by adding “s” to the
word region compared with the originally filed version of
claim 1. Thus, it appears that the present version of claim 1
is misdescriptive on its face.
The examiner also properly raises questions with respect
to the language of the channel region being multiply connected
with a multiplicity of n. The specification does not aid in
understanding what the value or numeric value of n may be even
though it is associated with the channel region 1 having two
properties. Even though the claim may be interpreted to
properly reflect the two properties associated with channel
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