Appeal No. 95-5039
Application 07/979,018
Under the statutory provision at issue, claims are
required to particularly point out and distinctly claim the
subject matter which is regarded as the invention. In other
words, the metes and bounds of the claimed invention must be
determinable.
In the present case, we share appellant’s point of view
to the effect that the claims would reasonably apprise those
skilled in the art as to the metes and bounds of the subject
matter being claimed.
Like appellant, we readily understand that the claimed
identification card comprises, inter alia, an image of an object
or other entity and a two dimensional barcode representation,
which image and barcode representation are clearly defined
aspects of the claimed card.
Additionally, we consider the claimed recitation of “an
(sic, a) two dimensional barcode representation of an encrypted
signal comprising a compressed representation of said image” to
be definite in meaning, when read in light of the underlying dis-
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