Appeal No. 97-0777
Application 08/083,587
The invention relates to "methods and systems for
predicting air discharge temperature in a control system which
controls an automotive HVAC system" (specification, page 1).
Claims 1 through 7 are drawn to a method and claims 8 through
14 are drawn to a system. Copies of these claims appear in
the appendix to the appellants' main brief (Paper No. 8).
Claims 1 through 14 stand rejected:
a) under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as being based
on a specification which fails to comply with the enablement
requirement of this section of the statute; and
b) under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as being directed to non-
statutory subject matter.
Reference is made to the appellants' main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 8 and 10) and to the examiner's final
rejection (Paper No. 6), main and supplemental answers (Paper
Nos. 9 and 11) and response to remand (Paper No. 13) for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner with
regard to the merits of these rejections.
Turning first to the enablement rejection, the
dispositive issue is whether the appellants' disclosure,
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