Appeal No. 96-3543
Application No. 08/153,623
§ 1.196(b), we enter the following new rejection:
Claims 1-7, 9-12 and 14-16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite in that they fail
to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject
matter which the appellants regard as the invention.
We begin by pointing out that in the second paragraph of
the body of claim 1, first, second, third and fourth border
“sections” are set forth, whereas in the remainder of the
claim what appears to be the same elements are recited as
border “portions.” This also appears in independent claims 9,
14 and 16. Furthermore, these same elements are labeled as
border “lengths” in claims 2 and 10, and merely as “borders”
in claim 5.
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