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               Appeal No. 2004-0358                                                                      Page 6                  
               Application No. 08/997,748                                                                                        

               passages in the original specification, not directly related to each other, we invite                             
               attention to the following in Lockwood v. American Airlines Inc., 107 F.3d 1565,                                  
               1571-1572, 41 USPQ2d 1961, 1966 (Fed. Cir. 1997):                                                                 
                      It is the disclosures of the applications that count.  Entitlement to a filing                             
                      date does not extend to subject matter which is not  disclosed, but would                                  
                      be obvious over what is expressly disclosed.  It extends only to that which                                
                      is disclosed.                                                                                              
               and                                                                                                               
                      The question [under the written description requirement of 35 U.S.C.                                       
                      § 112, first paragraph] is not whether a claimed invention is an obvious                                   
                      variant of that which is disclosed in the specification.                                                   
               and                                                                                                               
                      One shows that one is “in possession” of the invention by describing the                                   
                      invention, with all its claimed limitations, not that which makes it obvious.                              
               See In re Winkhaus, 527 F.2d 637, 640, 188 USPQ 129, 131 (CCPA 1975)("[t]hat a                                    
               person skilled in the art might realize from reading the disclosure that such a step is                           
               possible is not a sufficient indication to that person that that step is part of appellants'                      
               invention.  Such an indication is the least that is required for a description of the                             
               invention under the first paragraph of § 112.")                                                                   
                      The rejection of claims 94 through 96 and 100 through 118 under 35 U.S.C.                                  
               § 112, first paragraph (written description) is affirmed.                                                         


                                                     35 U.S.C. § 103(a)                                                          
                      According to the examiner, applicants’ claimed method would have been obvious                              
               at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art in view of                        






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