Appeal No. 98-0103 Page 7
Application No. 08/248,745
filed. In our opinion, the disclosure of the application as
originally filed would not have reasonably conveyed to the
artisan that the disclosed laser absorptive material absorbs more
than 60% of laser energy generated by a laser beam impinging upon
a surface of the laser absorptive material. While the
appellant's Figure 2 illustrates a graph of a particular
absorptive material which may be used in the present invention,
that graph would not have reasonably conveyed to an artisan that
the particular absorptive material absorbs more than 60% of laser
energy generated by a laser beam impinging upon a surface of the
laser absorptive material. This is due to the fact that the
graph shown in Figure 2 does not display the total amount of
laser energy generated by a laser beam. In this regard, we note
that the graph shown in Figure 2 does not display frequencies
above 1200 nanometers or below 300 nanometers. Thus the graph
shown in Figure 2 is silent as to the total amount of energy from
a laser beam that the material absorbs.
The language at issue in dependent claims 6 and 21 is "the 2
laser absorptive material is configured to absorb more than 60%
2Claim 6 depends from independent claim 1 and claim 21
depends from independent claim 16.
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