Appeal No. 98-2691
Application No. 08/529,041
"The legal standard for definiteness is whether a claim
reasonably apprises those of skill in the art of its scope."
In re Warmerdam, 33 F.3d 1354, 1361, 31 USPQ2d 1754, 1759
(Fed. Cir. 1994). In the present case, we do not consider
that the language specified by the examiner renders the scope
of the claims unclear. The expression "an actuating servo
connected to move said nozzle," for example, simply covers an
actuating servo which is connected to the other claimed
apparatus in such a fashion to move the nozzle; the fact that
the claims does not specify what particular part of the
claimed apparatus the servo
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