Ex parte NILSSEN - Page 5




          Appeal No. 1996-3399                                                        
          Application 08/295,150                                                      



          August 15, 1996, which bears no official paper number in the                
          file wrapper.  A supplemental appeal brief filed on February                
          22, 2000 does not bear on the merits of the issues on the                   
          appeal.                                                                     


                                       OPINION                                        
                    We reverse the rejection of claims 49 through 60                  
          under the enablement provision of the first paragraph of 35                 
          U.S.C.                                                                      
          § 112.  The examiner's basis of this rejection appears to                   
          focus upon page 6 of the specification as filed to the extent               
          it relates to an obviousness miscalculation of a current                    
          value.   The examiner complains that the corrected value is                 
          much higher than the applicant's cited safe limit of this                   
          current value.  The                                                         


          examiner is of the belief that this so-called safety limit                  
          provides the only basis for the recited safety features in                  
          many of the claims on appeal.                                               



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