Appeal No. 1999-0527
Application No. 08/801,837
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the issues raised in this
appeal, this panel of the board has carefully considered
appellants’ specification, drawing, and claim 1, and the
respective viewpoints of appellants and the examiner. As a
consequence of our review, we make the determinations which
follow.
The rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph
We affirm this rejection.
The rejection questions the adequacy of appellants’
disclosure of their invention as it pertains to the question of
whether the disclosure would have enabled one skilled in the art
of seal arrangements for shaft ends to make and use the
invention. The test regarding enablement is whether a
disclosure, as filed, is sufficiently complete to enable one of
ordinary skill in the art to make and use a claimed invention
without undue experimentation. See In re Wands, 858 F.2d 731,
737, 8 USPQ2d 1400, 1404 (Fed. Cir. 1988) and In re Scarbrough,
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