Ex parte ERHART et al. - Page 6




          Appeal No. 1997-0321                                                        
          Application 08/052,494                                                      


          “the specification are [sic, is] inadequate, unclear and                    
          confusing and because the description in the specification                  
          originally [filed] has never made clear as to what [is] to be               
          included in the ‘means for detecting integrity of bonding’ nor              
          does it make clear ... what are meant to be included in these               
          as well.”                                                                   
               Appellants argue [brief, pages 3 to 6] that the terms and              
          the recitations used in the claims are well described in the                
          specification and point to various parts of the specification               
          and the drawings to support their arguments.                                


               We have reviewed the specification for the references                  
          made by Appellants in their arguments.  We are of the view                  
          that the specification does provide an adequate description                 
          for the invention.  The specification shows the various means               
          involved in testing the integrity of bonding between the                    
          output of the display driver and the display.  Figures 1 and 2              
          of the specification, together with the associated text, show               
          how the circuit in figure 1 is initialized for the testing                  
          mode, how a sampling time interval is chosen, how a test                    


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