Appeal No. 1996-3162
Application 08/227,897
it is not clear how one of ordinary skill would apply any such
teachings. To do so would require a wholesale reconstruction
of the Boutillier device, which in our view would not have
been suggested by Yamazaki, but rather would result only from
impermissible hindsight gleaned from appellants' own
disclosure.
Accordingly, rejection (2) will not be sustained.
Rejections (3), (4), (5) and (6)
These rejections will not be sustained, since the
additional references cited therein do not overcome the
deficiency in the combination of Boutillier and Yamazaki,
discussed above with regard to rejection (2).
Rejections Pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b)
Pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we enter the
following new grounds of rejection.
(A) Claims 2 to 5 and 7 to 14 are rejected for failure to
comply with the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112, in that
there is no written description in the original application as
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