Appeal No. 99-0629 Page 10
Application No. 08/778,059
us, since section 112 does not require an applicant to
disclose each and every equivalent of the claimed structure.
For the foregoing reasons, we cannot sustain the
examiner's rejection of claims 17 through 27 under 35 U.S.C. §
112 on the basis that the appellant's specification fails to
provide adequate disclosure of "trigger means for triggering
said first discharge means and said second discharge means."
However, as the appellant has not challenged the
examiner's further findings that "an air comprising portion"
in claim 25 and “comprising” in claim 27 are not clear (final
rejection, page 2), we shall summarily sustain the examiner's
rejection of claims 25 and 27, and claim 26 which depends from
claim 25, under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, on these
bases.
Rejection 2
Breneman discloses a rifle (28) adapted for mounting over
the forearm and hand of a user by means of a mechanical hand
(1). The rifle (28) comprises a barrel (30), a bullet (32), a
firing pin (33), a firing spring (34) compressed between a
shoulder (47) of the firing pin and the bullet, a trigger (36)
and an activator means (8) comprising a finger grip (15)
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