Appeal No. 1997-3798 Page 2
Application No. 08/272,018
The appellant's invention relates to a coat weight
control system to reduce variation in coating across paper
width (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under
appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Leppanen et al. 4,833,941 May 30,
1989
(Leppanen)
Eriksson WO 93/05887 April 1, 1993
Claims 2 to 6, 11 and 14 to 16 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as containing subject matter
which was not described in the specification in such a way as
to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that
the appellants, at the time the application was filed, had
possession of the claimed invention.
Claims 1 to 8, 11 and 14 to 16 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Eriksson.
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