Appeal No. 1997-0031
Application 07/987,669
specification, however, denotes “silk-screen Printing Oil No.
80661 from DEGUSSA” as an example of such a drying silk-screen
printing oil preparation. Viewed in light of this disclosure,
the claim limitation in question has a reasonably precise
meaning.
The examiner also regards the language in claim 17
(clause c) referring to the sets of “transparent and opaque”
ceramic colors and mineral pigments to be indefinite because
it is not clear how a color or pigment can be both transparent
and opaque at the same time (see page 4 in the main answer).
The language
in question, however, reasonably construed, does not require a
color or pigment which is both transparent and opaque. It
merely defines sets which include both transparent and opaque
colors or pigments.
Finally, the examiner views claims 24 and 25 as being
indefinite due to the language therein relating to the “sets”
(claim 24) or “set” (claim 25) of four different colors or
pigments (see pages 4 and 5 in the main answer). There is no
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