Appeal No. 98-0007
Application 08/440,907
art attempting to read the claims in light of the specifica-
tion could not determine their scope with any reasonable
degree of precision. Cf. In re Cohn, 438 F.2d 989, 993, 169
USPQ 95, 98 (CCPA 1971).
(B) Claim 6 is rejected for failure to comply with the
enablement requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph.
Claim 6 recites that “said face plate defines a load
bearing surface area to engage with such a flange protruding
outwardly from the engine block.” As discussed above in
rejection (A), there is no detailed description in the
specification of the recited “flange,” and thus there is no
disclosure which would enable one of ordinary skill to provide
a load bearing surface on the face plate to engage the flange.
The only disclosure of any relevance would seem to be on page
8, lines 9 to 12, where it is stated that the fan blade
assembly can be removed and the mounting studs of the fan
blade assembly can abut the confronting surface of the face
plate, but there is nothing in this
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