Appeal No. 1995-5117
Application No. 08/067,154
canceled. Further, on page 8 of the answer, the examiner in
effect has withdrawn her sole final rejection of claim 11 as
being inappropriate. As a result of this withdrawal, there is
no outstanding rejection of this claim on the record before
us, and therefore the subject appeal of claim 11 is hereby
dismissed. As a consequence of the foregoing, only claims 2
through 5, 10, 12 through 16 and 18 through 20 remain before
us on this appeal. The only other claim pending in the above
identified application, which is claim 21, has been allowed by
the examiner.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a nematic liquid
crystal mixture and to the matrix liquid crystal display which
includes this mixture. The mixture comprises one or more
compounds defined by the respective formulas recited in
appealed independent claims 4 and 10. A copy of these1
1By an apparently inadvertent oversight, the last clause
of claim 4 contains the recitation “said liquid comprises”
which lacks strict antecedent basis and which plainly should
read
-- said liquid crystal mixture comprises -- (cf., amendment B
of Paper No. 6 in parent application 07/688,481). This
informality should be corrected in any further prosecution
that may occur.
2
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