Appeal No. 1998-1781
Application No. 08/549,828
indefinite” as appellant urges on page 3 of the request. As 2
pointed out on page 7 of our decision, “the plane of rotation
running along each face of the roller element [of Wright], for
example, is spaced laterally of the common horizontal axis,”
thereby meeting the above-noted limitation of claim 25.
2Just because a claim is broad does not mean that it is indefinite.
See In re Johnson, 558 F.2d 1008, 1016 n.17, 194 USPQ 187, 194 n.17 (CCPA
1977); In re Miller, 441 F.2d 689, 693, 169 USPQ 597, 600 (CCPA 1971); In re
Gardner, 427 F.2d 786, 788, 166 USPQ 138, 140 (CCPA 1970) and Ex parte
Scherberich, 201 USPQ 397, 398 (Bd. App. 1977).
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