Appeal No. 2000-2003
Application 08/477,878
Requirement Under 37 CFR 1.196(d)
Pursuant to 37 CFR 1.196(d), this Board deems that it is
appropriate for a reasoned decision on this appeal that
appellants address the following matters:
(1) In an Appendix A to the examiner’s answer, the examiner shows
how he considers that, in certain positions of the handpiece head
22 of Levy et al, the fiber (light guide) 52 would extend
“increasingly eccentrically from the coupling toward the inner
side of the bend,” as recited in claims 1 and 3. Since
appellants have not filed a reply brief, their position on this
matter is not clear. Appellants are required to address the
question of whether they agree with the examiner’s analysis as
set forth in Appendix A of the answer and the accompanying
discussion, and if not, state the reasons for their disagreement.
(2) Claims 1 and 3 both recite that the end of the light guide
(claim 1) or the light guide (claim 3) is “rotatably mounted in
the receiving means.” This recitation appears to be contrary to
the detailed description on page 8 of the specification, where it
is stated at lines 6 and 7 that the light guide is “fixedly
connected” to the receiving means, and therefore it is not clear
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