Appeal No. 1998-3367
Application No. 08/545,717
properties an artisan would be well versed in, would be
appropriate materials for forming a belt having the claimed
stiffness. In light of the above, we believe the ordinarily
skilled artisan would be well informed as to where to begin in
locating materials to effect the claimed stiffness.
Concerning (2), the specification of the present application
on pages 2-4 reasonably appears to fully inform a skilled
artisan of how to perform the “modified version” of the ASTM-D
4032-82 test used by appellants to determine stiffness. In
explaining this modified ASTM test, reference is made on pages
2-3 of the specification to published European application EP-
A-0 336 578, which published application is incorporated by
reference into appellants’ disclosure.1 To the extent there
is any matter in EP-A-0 336 578 essential to an understanding
of the “modified version” of the ASTM test used by appellants
to determine stiffness that does not appear in the
specification of the present application, that essential
matter should be added to appellants’ specification in order
to comply with the completeness requirements set forth in
1A copy of this published Europe patent application is of
record in the application.
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