Appeal No. 98-0003
Application No. 08/601,896
This rejection cannot be sustained. Because the examiner
has failed to point out where in the combined teachings of the
references the claimed locating pins are to be found, and
because it is not apparent to us where the applied references
teach or suggest the claimed locating pins, appellant’s
general argument that claim 15 is patentable over the combined
teachings of Ouwerkerk, Karakane and Einhaus is well taken.
New rejection pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b)
Pursuant to our authority under 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we
enter the following new rejection:
Claims 16 and 17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, as being indefinite.
Claims 16 and 17 read as follows:
16. A support for a disc-shaped recording medium for
use with a holder in a combination as claimed in
claim 1.
17. A holder for use in a combination with a support
as claimed in claim 1.
A first possible interpretation of claim 16 is that it is
directed to a support per se that is capable of being used
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