Appeal No. 2000-2294
Application No. 08/511,425
§ 112, first paragraph, rejection of claims 69-78 based on
the “written description” requirement of the statute, we note
that the function of this requirement of the first paragraph
of 35 U.S.C. § 112 is to ensure that the inventor has
possession, as of the filing date of the application relied
on, of the specific subject matter later claimed by him. In
re Wertheim, 541 F. 2d 257, 262, 191 USPQ 90, 96 (CCPA 1976).
According to the Examiner (Answer, page 7), there is no
original disclosure for the terminology “scribe lines”
appearing in independent claim 69. We agree with Appellants
(Brief, page 14), however, that the skilled artisan would
recognize the lines depicting the delineation of plural die
sites 34 on test wafer 16 in Figure 3 of the original
disclosure as “scribe lines” which, as the evidence of record
indicates, are known to define the spacing between die on a
wafer. "It is not necessary that the application describe the
claim limitations exactly, . . . but only so clearly that
persons of ordinary skill in the art will recognize from the
disclosure that appellants invented processes including those
limitations." Wertheim, 541 F.2d at 262, 191 USPQ at 96
citing In re Smythe, 480 F.2d 1376, 1382, 178 USPQ 279, 284
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