Ex Parte DAMIEN - Page 11



          Appeal No. 2000-0330                                      Page 11           
          Application No. 08/684,871                                                  

                            III. New Ground of Rejection                              
               Under 37 C.F.R. § 1.196(b)(2001), we enter a new ground of             
          rejection against claims 18-37.  "’Although [the applicant] does            
          not have to describe exactly the subject matter claimed, . . .              
          the description must clearly allow persons of ordinary skill in             
          the art to recognize that [he or she] invented what is claimed.’"           
          Vas-Cath, Inc. v. Mahurkar, 935 F.2d 1555, 1563, 19 USPQ2d 1111,            
          1116 (Fed. Cir. 1991)(quoting In re Gosteli, 872 F.2d 1008, 1012,           
          10 USPQ2d 1614, 1618 (Fed. Cir. 1989)).  "[T]he test for                    
          sufficiency of support . . . is whether the disclosure of the               
          application relied upon 'reasonably conveys to the artisan that             
          the inventor had possession at that time of the later claimed               
          subject matter.'"  Ralston Purina Co. v. Far-Mar-Co, Inc., 772              
          F.2d 1570, 1575, 227 USPQ 177, 179 (Fed. Cir. 1985)(quoting In re           
          Kaslow, 707 F.2d 1366, 1375, 217 USPQ 1089, 1096 (Fed. Cir.                 
          1983)).  “Application sufficiency under §112, first paragraph,              
          must be judged as of the filing date [of the application].”  Vas-           
          Cath, 935 F.2d at 1566, 19 USPQ2d at 1119 (citing United States             










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