Appeal No. 96-3543
Application No. 08/153,623
The second problem of indefiniteness occurs in the third
paragraph of the body of claim 1, which sets forth a plurality
of weft members along one of the first, second, third and
fourth length portions of the border. This is followed by the
statement that the weft members are connected to “the involved
ones of said . . . length portions . . . of said border”
(emphasis added). There is no antecedent basis for the term
“involved ones,” and the meaning of this phrase thus is not
clear. This is repeated again in the fourth paragraph of the
claim with regard to the warp members (where it is recited as
being the involved “one”). The same situation occurs in
independent claims 9, 14 and 16.
Independent claims 1 and 9 contain an indefiniteness with
regard to understanding the limitations regarding the coloring
of certain of the elements. In each of these two claims it is
established that at least one of the weft members, and at
least one of the warp members, is “differently colored from
the remaining ones” of like kind. The final lines of each of
these claims also focus on the color of the weft and warp
elements, but what is meant there is unclear to us. The
language in question reads as follows:
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