Appeal No. 1999-0983
Application No. 08/782,891
The claims on appeal are drawn to a tire, and are
reproduced in the appendix to appellant's brief.1
Claims 14 and 17 stand finally rejected on the following
grounds:
(1) For failure to comply with the written description
requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph;
(2) For failure to comply with 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph.
Rejection (1)-Written Description
The initial portion of claim 14 reads (emphasis added):
A tire including a bead on each side of the
equatorial plane of the tire, a circumferentially
extending carcass anchoring means embedded in each
bead, said carcass anchoring means having a radially
inner and axially inner edge, . . .
The examiner asserts that there was no written
description, as required by 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph,
of the claimed "carcass anchoring means" in the application as
filed.
The term "carcass anchoring means" does not appear in the
1In reviewing the claims, we note that "the inner side
wall" in line 6 of claim 14 does not appear to have a clear
antecedent basis in the claim.
2
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