Appeal No. 1998-2037
Application No. 08/642,850
segments [10] interconnected by way of the mating of the lips
[30] engaging the adjacent lip [28] and notch [24] of an
adjacent segment in the rule.
de Lanauze does not teach a pair of symmetrical line-up
guides allochiral in configuration with each having a joint
line coincident with the confrontable edge of a respective
piece of a two-piece arcuate die plate as required by claim 3.
The examiner reads the "two-piece arcuate die plate" of claim
3 on adjacent, interconnected rule segments 10 of de Lanauze
(answer, page 4). While it is true that the claims in a
patent application are to
be given their broadest reasonable interpretation consistent
with the specification (In re Zletz, 893 F.2d 319, 321, 13
USPQ2d
1320, 1322 (Fed. Cir. 1989)) and limitations from a pending
application's specification will not be read into the claims
during prosecution of a patent application (Sjolund v.
Musland, 847 F.2d 1573, 1581-82, 6 USPQ2d 2020, 2027 (Fed.
Cir. 1988), it is also well settled that terms in a claim
should be construed in a manner consistent with the
specification and construed as those skilled in the art would
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