Ex parte MOLLOY et al. - Page 5




          Appeal No. 95-1360                                                          
          Application No. 08/134,002                                                  


          550, makes a distinction between these two concepts:                        
               “[R]eading a claim in the light of the                                 
               specification,” to thereby interpret limitations                       
               explicitly recited in the claim, is a quite                            
               different thing from “reading limitations of the                       
               specification into a claim,” to thereby narrow the                     
               scope of the claim by implicitly adding disclosed                      
               limitations which have no express basis in the                         
               claim.  This distinction is difficult to draw . . .                    
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