Appeal No. 97-0210
Application No. 08/157,050
§ 112, first paragraph, has been added pursuant to provisions
of 37 CFR § 1.196(b). 2
This decision contains a new ground of rejection pursuant
to 37 CFR § 1.196(b)(amended effective Dec. 1, 1997, by final
rule notice, 62 Fed. Reg. 53131, 53197 (Oct. 10, 1997), 1203
Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 63, 122 (Oct. 21, 1997)). 37 CFR §
1.196(b) provides that, "[a] new ground of rejection shall not
be considered final for purposes of judicial review."
37 CFR § 1.196(b) also provides that the appellant,
WITHIN TWO MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THE DECISION, must exercise
one of the following two options with respect to the new
ground of rejection to avoid termination of proceedings
(§ 1.197(c)) as to the rejected claims:
(1) Submit an appropriate amendment of the
claims so rejected or a showing of facts relating to
the claims so rejected, or both, and have the matter
reconsidered by the examiner, in which event the
application will be remanded to the examiner. . . .
(2) Request that the application be reheard
under § 1.197(b) by the Board of Patent Appeals and
Interferences upon the same record. . . .
2Appellant should note that the new ground of rejection
can be overcome fairly easily by amending the language of
claim 1. For example, appellant could change "by decreasing a
voltage supplied to said motor" to "once a voltage supplied to
said motor is decreased below a certain level."
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