Ex parte THOMPSON - Page 8




          Appeal No. 1998-1795                                                        
          Application No. 08/485,682                                                  
          § 112, second paragraph, 102 or 103, limitations from the                   
          disclosure are not to be imported into the claims.  In re                   
          Lundberg, 244 F.2d 543, 113 USPQ 530 (CCPA 1957); In re                     
          Queener, 796 F.2d 461, 230 USPQ 438 (Fed. Cir. 1986).  We also              
          note that the arguments not made separately for any individual              
          claim or claims are considered waived.  See 37 CFR § 1.192 (a)              
          and (c).  In re Baxter Travenol Labs., 952 F.2d 388, 391, 21                
          USPQ 2d 1281, 1285 (Fed. Cir. 1991) (“It is not the function                
          of this court to examine the claims in greater detail than                  
          argued by an appellant, looking for nonobvious distinctions                 
          over the prior art.”); In re Wiechert, 370 F.2d 927, 936, 152               
          USPQ 247, 254 (CCPA 1967) (“This court has uniformly followed               
          the sound rule that an issue raised below which is not argued               
          in this court, even if it has been properly brought here by                 
          reason of appeal is regarded as abandoned and will not be                   
          considered.  It is our function as a court to decide disputed               
          issues, not to create them.”)                                               
               Analysis                                                               
               At the outset, we note that usually the parking function               
          of a windshield wiper is not thought of as the actuating force              
          to achieve an intermittent running function.  It is just the                
          opposite, i.e., a parking function is a part of an                          
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