Appeal No. 1996-2198
Application 08/077,506
(filed Apr. 3, 1987)
Kuroda et al. (Kuroda) 4,829,577 May 9, 1989
(filed Mar. 12, 1987)
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1986 ed.), p. 806.
(Webster).
D. The grounds of rejection
Paper No. 31, the Office action that immediately precedes
and is incorporated by reference into the final Office action
(Paper No. 34), states (at 6 and 8-10) that the claims are
rejected on the following grounds:
Claims 1-5 stand rejected under the first paragraph of §
112 for being based on a specification that "fail[s] to
provide an adequate written description of the invention and
failing to present the best mode."
Claims 1-5 also stand rejected under the second paragraph
of § 112 for being indefinite.
Claims 1 and 3-5 further stand rejected under § 103 for
obviousness over Kuroda in view of Baker.
3(...continued)
identifies Baker et al. Patent No. 4,805,219 as the Baker
reference relied on in the § 103 rejection.
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