Appeal No. 2000-0526
Application No. 08/818,958
rejection (see Paper Nos. 9 and 11). No other claims are 1
pending in this application.
1The two amendments (Paper Nos. 6 and 9) to claim 3, line 1, actually
requested by the appellant result in the term "bending" appearing twice in
succession. We note, however, that the second amendment (Paper No. 9) was
clerically entered so that the claim reads ". . . including bending closed a
gas passageway . . ." (i.e., the term "bending" appears only once), which
appears to have been the appellant's intent and which is consistent with the
copy of claim 3 in the appendix to the appellant's brief. In any event, we
shall interpret claim 3 as it appears in the appendix to the appellant's
brief.
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