Ex Parte RUSSO et al - Page 5

                Appeals 2006-2874 and 2006-2747                                                                 
                Applications 08/544,212 and 09/287,664                                                          
                Patent 5,401,305                                                                                
           1                 organic phosphites, organic borates and water, and                                 
           2                 mixtures thereof, and [4] a source of oxygen.                                      
           3                                                                                                    
           4    Original specification, page 16.                                                                
           5           The Examiner entered a rejection of some of the original claims,                         
           6    including original claim 1, as being unpatentable under the enablement                          
           7    provision of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112.                                            
           8           The Examiner held that the disclosure is enabling only for claims                        
           9    limited to certain compositions, i.e., those wherein the silicon oxide                          
          10    precursor is limited to that recited in original claim 11.  Examiner's Action                   
          11    entered 20 September 1994, page 2.                                                              
          12           Original claim 11 read as follows, bracketed matter added:                               
          13                        The composition of claim 1 wherein the                                      
          14                 precursor of silicon oxide is RmOnSip, where m is                                  
          15                 from 3 to 8, n is from 1 to 4, p is from 1 to 4 and R                              
          16                 is . . . hydrogen or . . . [certain organic radicals].                             
          17                                                                                                    
          18           In a response received in the Office on 27 October 1994 (Paper 8 of                      
          19    the patent file), Appellants, among other things, (1) cancelled original claim                  
          20    11 and (2) amended original claim 1.                                                            
          21           Claim 1, as amended, reads as follows, with bracketed matter added,                      
          22    matter in strikeout deleted from original claim 1 and matter in italics added                   
          23    to original claim 1:                                                                            
          24                        A gaseous composition at a temperature                                      
          25                 below about 200°C at atmospheric pressure,                                         
          26                 adapted to deposit at least a first layer of tin oxide                             
          27                 and silicon oxide onto glass at a rate of deposition                               
          28                 greater than about 350 Ǻ/sec. at a temperature                                     
          29                 below about 200°C, at atmospheric pressure,                                        
          30                 wherein the composition comprises [1] a precursor                                  
          31                 of tin oxide, [2] a precursor of silicon oxide of the                              

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