Appeal No. 1997-3031
Application No. 08/411,509
description is not found in the specification as originally
filed for this amendatory claim language. More specifically,
the originally filed application includes the broad disclosure
that the ultraviolet preferably has a wavelength of 150 to 300
nanometers to promote reactions near a surface of a growing
thin film and migration of deposited atoms. See the
specification at page 5, lines 12 through 15. At page 9, line
25, to page 10, line 2, the specification does report on an
ultraviolet light source 15 which produces ultraviolet light
having wavelength of 172 nanometers. Again at page 10, lines
9 through 12, the specification indicates that the ultraviolet
light source 15 is preferably a low pressure mercury lamp of
wavelength of around 150 to 300 nanometers having an output of
around 5 to 100 watt, which is preferably disposed at a
distance of 100 to 500 mm from the substrate 4. Consistent
with the original disclosure in the specification, original
dependent claim 2 simply defines the ultraviolet light as
having a wavelength of 150 to 300 nanometers. As originally
filed, therefore, the application does not reasonably convey
to one skilled in the art that appellant had possession of the
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