Appeal No. 1998-1533 Page 19
Application No. 08/411,202
the teachings of Hummel and Feldmann does arrive at the
claimed invention. In this regard, it is our determination
that the broadest reasonable meaning of 6
each of said brake shoes has a friction pad member having
an upper portion opposite a lower portion, the upper
portion having an upper width less than a lower width of
the lower portion, and the upper width in total is less
than about 1/12 of a circumferential length of said disc
rotor at a position where said disc rotor
is that each friction pad member has a total upper width less
than about 1/12 of a circumferential length of the disc rotor
at a position where the disc rotor is brought into frictional
engagement with the upper portion of each friction pad member.
6In proceedings before the Patent and Trademark Office
(PTO), the PTO applies to the verbiage of the claims before it
the broadest reasonable meaning of the words in their ordinary
usage as they would be understood by one of ordinary skill in
the art, taking into account whatever enlightenment by way of
definitions or otherwise that may be afforded by the written
description contained in the appellant's specification. In re
Morris, 127 F.3d 1048, 1054, 44 USPQ2d 1023, 1027 (Fed. Cir.
1997). See also In re Sneed, 710 F.2d 1544, 1548, 218 USPQ
385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1983).
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