Appeal No. 1998-3271
Application No. 08/563,156
proximate the web (figures 7 and 12), the tip portion including
an exterior surface which extends longitudinally the length of
the tip portion and parallel with and facing the web (figures 6,
12 and 13), the feed block having a plurality of coating feed
passageways terminating in apertures formed in the tip portion
exterior surface (figure 11), the apertures communicating with
the reservoir via respective associated coating feed passageways
serially disposed with a longitudinally elongated passageway in
the feed block (figures 6 and 11). Thus, the appellants’ claim 5
is anticipated by Columbus.
The appellants argue (brief, page 11): “Claim 5 recites that
the feed block has ‘a coating supply reservoir within said base
portion and extending longitudinally substantially the length
thereof’. Accordingly, Columbus does not anticipate claim 5
under 35 U.S.C. §102(e).” The appellants do not define
“substantially” in their specification. The common meanings of
this term include “[b]eing of considerable importance, value,
degree, amount, or extent”.5 Columbus’ figure 13 shows the
coating supply reservoir extending well over half way along the
5 Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary 1155 (Riverside
1984).
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