Appeal No. 1996-3491
Application 08/213,347
particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter
which applicant regards as the invention. The examiner bases
this rejection on the appellants’ use of the phrase
“predetermined value” in independent claims 1 and 9
(examiner’s answer, pages 3-4). Specifically, the examiner
argues that the phrase refers to no precise value which would
permit a person of ordinary skill in the art to fully
understand the metes and bounds of the invention (examiner’s
answer, page 9).
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