Appeal No. 1996-3399
Application 08/295,150
Powell 4,140,959 Feb. 20, 1979
Ebert, Jr. (Ebert) 4,241,261 Dec. 23, 1980
Marez et al. (Marez) 4,315,304 Feb. 9, 1982
Rumble 4,543,624 Sept. 24, 1985
(filed Aug. 17,
1982)
The grandparent application was the subject of
Appeal No. 88-2771, decided on May 31, 1989 of which a deci-
sion on a
request for reconsideration was issued on July 27, 1989. The
parent application to the present application was also the
subject of Appeal No. 94-0197, the decision of which was
issued on November 23, 1993.
From our study of the final rejection in this appli-
cation and the examiner's answer, the examiner has rejected
all claims on appeal, claims 49 through 60, under the
enablement provision of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. §
112. Appellant mischaracterizes this rejection as being based
upon a lack of support. Next, claims 49, 52, 56 and 58 stand
rejected under the second paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 as
being indefinite. Finally, claims 49 through 60 (as expressed
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