Appeal No. 97-2734
Application 08/394,067
claims, as they appear in the Appendix to appellants' brief,
is attached to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by
the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Stein 4,476,885 Oct. 16, 1984
Hansen et al. (Hansen) 4,753,259 June 28, 1988
Acosta, Sr. (Acosta) 4,763,680 Aug. 16, 1988
Greatwood 5,101,846 Apr. 7, 1992
Claims 1 through 4 and 8 through 11 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as being based on a
specification which, as originally filed, does not provide
support for the invention as now claimed. According to the
examiner,
[t]he original specification does not
disclose “a dynamic support” . . . as is
now claimed in claim 1 [and also in inde-
pendent claims 10 and 11] or “means for
dynamically supporting . . .” as in
claim 4 (final rejection, page 2).
Claims 1 through 4 and 8 through 11 stand addition-
ally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as
being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and
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