Appeal No. 1999-2063
Application No. 08/744,432
specification for the claim language. The content
of the drawings may also be considered in
determining compliance with the written description
requirement.
In re Kaslow, 707 F.2d 1366, 1375, 217 USPQ 1089, 1096 (Fed.
Cir. 1983) (citations omitted).
A first embodiment of the multipurpose tuck label of the
present invention (see Figure 1) comprises a label ply that
includes an upper panel 16, a center panel 18, a lower panel
20, and a pair of side panels 22, 24, with the upper and
center panels being connected along a transverse perforated
fold line 26. Column 2, lines 7-11. In use, the upper panel
is folded along fold line 26 so as to lie beneath the center
panel. Figures 3, 4 and 5 illustrate other “versions” of the
Figure 1 embodiment (column 4, lines 17-25), with each version
of the first embodiment having an upper panel, a center panel,
and a lower panel. Patent claims 1-7 are drawn to this first
embodiment in that they are expressly limited to a
multipurpose tuck label/form including an upper panel, a
center panel, a lower panel, and a pair of side panels. Thus,
the specification as a whole consistently indicates that the
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