Appeal No. 1997-0921
Application 08/038,577
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's final rejection of claims
1 through 9, which constitute all the claims in the application.
Representative claim 9 is reproduced below:
9. An apparatus for generating a plurality of process steps to form a sequence of
steps corresponding to a plurality of levels to operate a machine, comprising:
circuitry for obtaining a pointer from a database corresponding to said sequence of
the steps;
circuitry for defining the sequence into at least two portions including a first portion
and a second portion; and
circuitry for generating said process steps from said pointer so that said process
steps include a first process step corresponding to first steps of said first portion of said
two portions and not corresponding to second steps of said second portion of said two
portions, and a second process step corresponding to said second steps of said second
portion of said two portions and not corresponding to said first steps of said first portion of
said sequence.
There are no references relied on by the examiner.
Claims 1 through 9 stand rejected under the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 as
being based upon a nonenabling disclosure. Claims 1 through 9 also stand rejected under
the second paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 as being indefinite.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the examiner, reference is
made to the briefs and the answer for the respective details thereof.
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