Appeal No. 1999-0063
Application No. 08/602,366
assertion that there is no requirement that language added by
amendment to claims be in the originally filed claims, as
incorrectly asserted by the Examiner. In any case, our review
of the language of the originally filed claims 1-15 in fact
reveals clear support for the added “travel request signal”
language in later submitted claims 16 and 21. Original claims
constitute their own description. In re Koller, 613 F.2d 819,
823, 204 USPQ 702, 706 (CCPA 1980). Although the exact
language “travel request signal” is not used in the original
claims, original claim 1 clearly provides description support
by reciting “a first command signal for receiving a position
traveling request....” Further, contrary to the Examiner’s
concern (Answer, page 5) that the language in the later
submitted claims was an attempt to improperly cover both
rewind and forward tape movement, we point out that originally
filed claim 4 specifies that the position traveling request
“is a rewind request or a fast-forward request.”
Further, notwithstanding our finding that the originally
filed claims in this application provide clear support for the
language added in claims 16-25, we are in agreement with
Appellant that the disclosure at page 27, lines 8-20 and page
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