Appeal No. 1998-0256
Application No. 08/395,768
At this point, we turn our attention to the content of
claim 28. This independent claim requires a mold insert
comprising a solid metal body having a circumferentially-
extending, outwardly-open, liquid conduit groove formed
therein with an improvement wherein the groove has mutually
confronting side walls, "one of which is provided with an
undercut having an imperforate, sloping surface facing
inwardly of the insert" for clamping engagement by "a locking
element" for mounting a liquid barrier dam assembly in the
groove.
Like the examiner, we conclude that appellant’s
originally filed underlying disclosure, read as a whole, fails
to reasonably convey to one skilled in the art that appellant
had possession of the later claimed subject matter of claim
28.
It is quite clear to us that the import of appellant’s
teaching, personified by the preferred and modified
embodiments of Figs. 7 and 8, respectively, is that the
objective of securely installing a liquid dam or barrier
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