Ex parte BOUCHER - Page 8




          Appeal No. 98-3354                                         Page 8           
          Application No. 08/427,743                                                  


          1990), Specialty Composites v. Cabot Corp., 845 F.2d 981, 986,              
          6 USPQ2d 1601, 1604 (Fed. Cir. 1988) and In re Sneed, 710 F.2d              
          1544, 1548, 218 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1983)).  Here, we can              
          think of no circumstances under which the artisan, consistent               
          with the appellant's specification, would construe the                      
          resilient, elastic member 60 of Guzik to correspond to the                  
          claimed weight.                                                             
               With respect to claims 25-27, 34, 35 and 37, we have                   
          carefully reviewed the teachings of Salminen but find nothing               
          therein which would overcome the deficiencies of Guzik that we              
          have noted above.                                                           











               The examiner's rejections are all reversed.                            


                                       REVERSED                                       








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