Appeal No. 1996-2089
Application 07/978,626
In this respect, we again point out that Cuthbert et al. is the only evidence of record of an enclosed
apparatus for treating the edge of a wafer. Compare Rouffet, 149 F.3d at 1358, 47 USPQ2d at
1457-58.
Accordingly, it is manifest that the only direction to appellants’ claimed invention as a whole on
the record before us is supplied by appellants’ own specification. Rouffet, 149 F.3d at 1358, 47
USPQ2d at 1457-58; Fine, supra; Dow Chem., supra.
The examiner’s decision is reversed.
Reversed
CHARLES F. WARREN )
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THOMAS A. WALTZ ) BOARD OF PATENT
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PAUL LIEBERMAN )
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