Appeal No. 1999-1965
Application 08/529,230
over Boreali in view of Yokota and Cassia;
g) claim 10 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Boreali in view of Yokota, Cassia and Kudo;
and
h) claim 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Boreali in view of Yokota, Szczepaniec and
Hirono.
Reference is made to the appellants’ main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 22 and 25) and to the examiner’s answer
(Paper No. 24) for the respective positions of the appellants
and the examiner with regard to the merits of these
rejections.
The 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, rejection rests on
the examiner’s determination that claims 5, 6, 17, 18 and 20
are indefinite because
i) In claim 5 [and presumably claim 17], the
phrase “a label” is vague and indefinite in
that it is a double inclusion of the same
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