Appeal No. 97-1206 Page 7
Application No. 08/219,555
388 (Fed. Cir. 1984); cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984);
W.L. Gore and Associates, Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d
1540, 1554, 220 USPQ 303, 313 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied,
469 U.S. 851 (1984).
The examiner basically makes a blanket anticipation
rejection of claims 1-5 on Fischer without meaningful
analysis. (Answer, p. 4) The rejection does not indicate how
the examiner is reading the claims on the disclosure of
Fischer. The first time in the answer that the examiner makes
any correspondence between elements of the claims and the
disclosure of Fischer occurs in the response to arguments
section of the answer. There the examiner reads only selected
limitations from the claims on
the disclosure of Fischer. The examiner’s correspondence of
elements, however, fails to consider all the language of
claims 1-5.
Regarding independent claim 1, notwithstanding the many
limitations of the claim ignored by the examiner, the
appellants makes a single relevant argument in support of its
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