Appeal No. 1999-0718
Application 08/594,149
including an array of needle-like, tapered pointed projections
and fastening means for affixing said array to said handhold.
Claim 1 also specifically sets forth the requirement that said
projections be “angled from said flat surface.”
In reviewing claim 1, we are at a complete loss to
understand how a flat surface as recited in appellant’s claim
1 can have “a uniform thickness,” or exactly how appellant
understands the recited flat surface to be “offset from said
first side” of said handhold. Geometrically speaking, a sur-
face has both length and breadth, but no thickness. Thus, the
requirement in claim 1 on appeal that the recited flat surface
have “a uniform thickness” clearly renders the claimed subject
matter indefinite. As for the further requirement that the
flat surface be “offset from said first side” of the handhold,
we note that this limitation would seem to require nothing
more than that
the handhold itself have some thickness, thereby having the
flat surface spaced from, or “offset” from, the first side of
the
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