Appeal No. 2000-1614
Application No. 08/944,371
interpretation, and limitations are not to be read thereinto
from the specification. In re Van Geuns, 988 F.2d 1181, 1184,
26 USPQ2d 1057, 1059 (Fed. Cir. 1993). With regard to
appellant’s first argument, the term "rod" is a broad term,
meaning "a stick, wand, staff, shaft or the like, of wood,
metal, or other material." Nothing in this definition3
requires a "rod" to be of
3The American College Dictionary (1970).
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