Appeal No. 1997-4387
Application 08/308,963
Appellants have amended the specification to state the
following:
In a variation of the preferred embodiment,
as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, member 7a is
fixedly secured between the upper mold 7
and the movable platen 4, so that gaps
remain between two of the secured surfaces
at the outer edges (Amendment submitted
July 16, 1996).
We are in agreement with the examiner that the
specification as originally filed does not reasonably convey
to one of ordinary skill that appellants were in possession of
the subject matter now claimed in claim 1. In our view,
appellants have not provided descriptive support for the
convex limitation in at least two respects. First of all, the
drawings as
originally filed certainly do not convey possession of the
subject matter of a convex member. The word "convex" is
generally taken to mean curved outwardly, and indeed claim 1
does use the word "curved." We are in agreement with the
examiner
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