Appeal No. 1998-1053
Application No. 07/974,832
these claims. Accordingly, we will sustain the examiner's
rejection of claims 35 through 37 under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph.
Before turning to the examiner's rejections of the claims
on appeal based on prior art, we note that it is an essential
prerequisite that the scope and content of the claimed subject
matter be fully understood prior to the application of prior
art thereto. Accordingly, we focus our attention on
appellant's other claims on appeal (i.e., other than claims 35
through 37 treated above) to derive an understanding of the
scope and content thereof.
Independent claims 1, 5, 10, 11 and 24 include the step
of "measuring parameters determinative of the density and
pressure of the foamed furnish," claim 14 sets forth a step of
"measuring the density and the pressure of said flow of foamed
furnish," claim 30 recites the step of "directly measuring the
density and the pressure of the foamed furnish," while
independent claims 26, 27, 28 and 29, set forth a step of
"measuring parameters directly determinative of density and
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