Appeal No. 2002-0881
Application No. 09/169,071
Even if Ochiai, Halko and Takahashi are properly combined in
the manner suggested by the examiner, the examiner has not
established that such combination would result in the claimed
invention. Specifically, the examiner has not referred to any
structure in the applied prior art references corresponding to
the claimed means for applying a cleaning liquid, i.e., the
corresponding structure described at page 7 of the specification
or equivalents thereof. In re Donaldson Co., 16 F.3d 1189, 1193,
29 USPQ2d 1845, 1848 (Fed. Cir. 1994)(en banc)(when the claimed
limitation is presented in a means-plus-function format, we
interpret it as being limited to the corresponding structure
described in the specification and equivalents thereof in
accordance with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. § 112, paragraph
6).
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