Ex parte AHRENS - Page 12




          Appeal No. 1998-1053                                                        
          Application No. 07/974,832                                                  


          clear if the density and pressure measurements recited in                   
          claims 17 and 18 are the same as or in addition to the                      
          measurement of "parameters determinative of the density and                 
          pressure of the foamed furnish" already set forth in claim 1.               
          Similar problems are present in claims 20 and 21 which are                  
          dependent from independent claim 5 and in claim 25 which                    
          depends from independent claim 24.                                          


          As a result of the ambiguity in the language of the                         
          claims as discussed above, we are compelled to enter a new                  
          ground of rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph.                
          Thus, under the provisions of 37 CFR 1.196(b), we enter the                 
          following new ground of rejection against all of the claims                 
          pending in this application.                                                


          Claims 1 through 11 and 14 through 37 are rejected under                    
          35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as failing to particularly               
          point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which                     
          appellant regards as the invention.  More specifically, for                 
          the reasons noted supra, we find that the claims pending in                 
          this application, including the claims currently indicated by               
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