Appeal No. 94-3255
Application 07/673,264
we reverse the examiner's rejections under this section of the
statute and direct attention to the Other Issues section,
infra.
Other Issues
In the event of further prosecution of this application,
there are several issues which should be considered by the
examiner and the appellants.
I.
As discussed above, the enablement issues raised by the
examiner cannot properly be explored until the record is clear
as to just what the claimed invention is. Panduit Corp. v.
Dennison
Mfg. Co., 810 F.2d 1561, 1567, 1 USPQ2d 1593, 1597 (Fed. Cir.
1987); In re Moore, supra. To satisfy the enablement
requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, the
specification must teach one skilled in the art how to “make
and use” the full scope of the claimed invention without undue
experimentation. PPG Indus. v. Guardian Indus. Corp., 75 F.3d
1558, 1564, 37 USPQ2d 1618, 1623 (Fed. Cir. 1996); In re
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