Appeal No. 2000-0693
Application 08/845,282
arrangement shown in Figure 4 where the recessed and protruded
portions are formed on the film layer applied to the tubular
member.
The examiner should consider whether there is proper
descriptive support in the disclosure as originally filed for
the subject matter of claims 10 and 21, as well as the claims
that depend therefrom. If descriptive support for the subject
matter of any such claim is found to be lacking, the examiner
should enter a rejection thereof under the first paragraph of
35 U.S.C. § 112.
Summary
The rejection of claims 4, 8-15, 17-19 and 21-57 is
reversed on the merits.
The rejection of claim 59 is reversed on procedural
grounds.
Under the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), a new
rejection of claim 59 has been made.
Under the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(a), this case is
remanded to the examiner for the reason noted above.
This decision contains a new ground of rejection pursuant
to 37 CFR § 1.196(b)(amended effective Dec. 1, 1997, by final
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