Appeal No. 1998-2817
Application No. 08/455,366
of Embodiment 2 had an average maximum magnitude of decay of
less than about 76.98 grams in an extension range of about 300
millimeters over the first three cycles. There are no
examples in the appellants’ specification illustrating how one
would make a closed-loop waist elastic system having a maximum
magnitude of decay in an extension range of about 300
millimeters over the first three cycles of zero (0) grams or
25 grams or of any number of grams less than 59.18 grams. In
some cases involving predictable factors, a single embodiment
provides broad enablement in the sense that, once imagined,
other embodiments can be made without
difficulty and their performance characteristics predicted by
resort to known scientific laws. The scope of enablement
obviously varies inversely with the degree of unpredictability
of the factors involved. In this case, involving
unpredictable factors, such as the effect on decay of (1) the
material used to make the elastic elements, (2) the spacing of
the bond areas between the sleeve and the elastic elements,
(3) the total area of all bond areas between the sleeve and
the elastic elements, (4) the cross sectional dimensions of
25
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