Appeal No. 1998-0631
Application 07/957,990
Appellant volunteers to delete the offending phrase
(Br28). However, in this case, we do not see a problem with
the claim language. The pressure transducers must be
"capable of detecting pressure," regardless of whether they
ever do or not. "Capable of detecting pressure" specifies a
property of the pressure transducer and is not indefinite.
Claim 207 is an apparatus claim and it does not require
actual operation of the apparatus. The rejection of
claim 207 is reversed.
Sixteenth issue - claims 118 and 211
The Examiner states (OA7):
In claims 118 and 211, each occurrence of
"further" should be deleted, since (i) there is no
prior recitation of the message means "comprising"
anything, and (ii) it otherwise appears that
"generating a sound from the annunciator" (claim 118,
line 4) or "generating a light" (claim 211, line 3)
occurs additional to "generating a message at the
message means" (claim 117, next-to-last line), which
does not appear to be intended.
Appellant volunteers to delete the offending word
(Br28). Because we think the minor language problem is
somewhat indefinite and because Appellant volunteers to fix
it, we sustain the rejection of claims 118 and 211.
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