Appeal No. 97-3198
Application No. 08/502,408
At the outset, pursuant to our authority under 37 C.F.R.
§ 1.196(b), we enter the following new rejections:
(1) Claims 1-3 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph, as the specification does not contain a description
of the invention as presently set forth in the claims.
Claim 1 recites an inner hub having a plurality of
circumferentially spaced elongated arms extending radially
outwardly, an outer ring member having a plurality of
circumferentially spaced elongated teeth extending radially
inwardly and received in the spaces between the elongated
arms, and a relatively incompressible elastomeric member
received in space between the side surfaces of the arms and
the teeth. The opposed adjacent side surfaces of the arms and
the teeth extend substantially parallel to one another. The
relationship between the arms and the teeth further requires
“said arms and said teeth intermeshing substantially entirely
along an entire length of said side surfaces” (emphasis
added), and this gives rise to the problem under the first
paragraph of Section 112.
The limitation quoted above was added by the first
amendment (Paper No. 3). It was not present in the original
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