Appeal No. 1997-2194 Page 10
Application No. 08/195,018
desiccant and the interior of the vessel from one another, is 3
permeable to water vapor (paragraph bridging pages 11-12). In
our view, the originally filed disclosure clearly teaches that
the desiccant chamber does communicate with the environment
external to the desiccant chamber. Thus, we find that the
phrase "said desiccant chamber not communicating with the
environment external to the desiccant chamber" violates the
written description requirement of the first paragraph of 35
U.S.C. § 112.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claims 1 to 3 and 6 to 19 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph, is affirmed.
The obviousness rejections
We will not sustain the rejection of claims 1 to 3 and 6
to 19 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
3We note that the interior of the vessel is an
environment external to the desiccant chamber.
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