Appeal No. 1999-0406
Application 08/484,019
Finally, the following rejection is entered pursuant to
37 CFR § 1.196(b).
Claim 14, and claims 15, 16, 19 through 25, 27 and 28
which depend therefrom, are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph, as being based on a specification which fails
to comply with the written description requirement of this
section of the statute.
The test for determining compliance with the written
description requirement is whether the disclosure of the
application as originally filed reasonably conveys to the
artisan that the inventor had possession at that time of the
later claimed subject matter, rather than the presence or
absence of literal support in the specification for the claim
language. In re Kaslow, 707 F.2d 1366, 1375, 217 USPQ 1089,
1096 (Fed. Cir. 1983). The content of the drawings may also
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