Appeal No. 1998-0244
Application No. 08/531,890
adhesive drug-free backing layer and a removable protective
layer and (2) inserting individual quadrangular pressure-
sensitive adhesive drug-reservoir-sections one after the other
between the layers. According to the original disclosure (see
pages 8 through 11), however, the individual quadrangular
pressure-sensitive adhesive drug-reservoir-sections (5 and 6)
are placed on the removable protective layer (3) before the
pressure-sensitive adhesive drug-free backing layer (1 and 4)
is ever laminated to the removable protective layer. In other
words, the process described in the original specification
does not contemplate the provision of a laminate of two layers
in tape form and the insertion of quadrangular sections
between the laminate layers. Thus, the disclosure of the
application as originally filed would not reasonably convey to
the artisan that the appellants had possession at that time of
the process now recited in claims 3 and 4, and in claim 2
which depends from claim 3.
Claims 2 through 4 are also rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
112, second paragraph.
This statutory provision requires that the claims
accurately define the invention. See In re Knowlton, 481 F.2d
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