Appeal No. 98-3299
Application 08/335,331
reverse all the rejections of claims 1 through 4 and 6 through
93.
We treat the various rejections in the same order as they
appear in the Examiner’s answer and the Appellants’ brief.
Rejections Under The Second Paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112
With respect to the § 112 second paragraph rejections, we
agree with Appellants on the issues of “collateral
information”, “directly combining” and “undue multiplicity”.
We have reviewed the contentions of the Examiner as to these
points [answer, pages 3 to 4], and Appellants’ corresponding
rebuttal [brief, pages 12 to 16]. We have further studied the
portions of the specification referred to by Appellants’
rebuttal. We find that the terms “collateral information” and
“directly combining”, as they are used in the claims and
explained in the specification and further elucidated by the
Newman Declaration [paper no. 16], are definite and clear. As
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