Appeal No. 1999-2788
Application No. 08/910,469
disclose a pointed tip at an outermost distal end of the blade
body, as set forth in independent claim 1 on appeal. The
language of independent claim 1 relating to the recessed
cutting portion terminating in a pointed tip "at an outermost
distal end of said body" was first added to claim 1 in an
amendment filed May 12, 1997 in the parent of the present
application. Appellant's specification does not use the same
language as claim 1 in describing the recessed portion (22)
and the pointed tip (24) of the cutting blade (12). More
specifically, the specification does not mention or describe
"an outermost distal end of said body," as is set forth in
claim 1 on appeal. Therefore, our principal guidance for
understanding this language must come from appellant's
drawings.
Figure 1 of appellant's drawings shows the cutting blade
body (20) as terminating in an outermost distal end that is
contoured or curved from its upper or second side to its lower
or first side and which terminates at the first side at a
pointed tip (24). Thus, as is apparent from Figure 1, the
entirety of the curved or contoured surface at the end of the
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