Appeal No. 1997-0529 Page 6
Application No. 08/573,884
little" in claim 18 to be a relative term which renders claim
18 and its dependent claims (i.e., claims 19 to 21)
indefinite. 1
We will not sustain the examiner's rejection of claims 18
to 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, since the term
"very little" is not present in claim 18 on appeal. In that
regard, claim 18 was amended by the preliminary amendment
(Paper No. 27, filed December 18, 1995) by deleting "very
little" and substituting - substantially no -. The correct
copy of claim 18 appears in the appendix to this decision.2
The enablement rejection
We will not sustain the rejection of claims 18 to 21
under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph.
1The examiner also found the trademark "KEVLAR " in claim ®
19 to be indefinite. However, this basis for the rejection
was withdrawn in the supplemental answer due to the
appellant's amendment to claim 19 (Paper No. 32).
2The copy of claim 18 attached in the appendix to the
brief is not correct.
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