Appeal No. 97-2999 Page 7
Application No. 08/338,714
agree with the examiner, that the preamble of claim 36 is
inconsistent with the recitations of the body of the claim,
such inconsistency, in this case, does not render the claim
indefinite since the scope of the invention sought to be
patented can be determined from the language of the claim with
a reasonable degree of certainty. 3
3We encourage the appellant to correct this inconsistency
by filing a suitable amendment, such as the deletion of "for
supporting a tool" from line 1 of claim 36.
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