Appeal No. 2000-1302 Page 3
Application No. 08/766,057
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determinations which follow.
Appellant’s brief states on page 4 that “[c]laims 12-14
and 19 stand or fall together.” Therefore, in accordance with
37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), we have selected claim 19, the sole
independent claim on appeal, as the representative claim to
decide this appeal, with claims 12-14 standing or falling
therewith.
At the outset, we note that the first recited step of
claim 19 appears to be inconsistent with appellant’s
underlying disclosure (see specification, page 6). Based on
our understanding of appellant’s specification, it appears
that the first step of claim 19 should read –-removing the
existing plywood [or plywood with attached foam and skin] from
the frame of the existing bus seat–-. In the interest of
judicial efficiency, for purposes of this appeal, we have
interpreted the first step of claim 19 as a step of removing
the plywood and any foam and skin attached thereto from the
frame of the existing bus seat. However, in the event of
further prosecution of the claimed subject matter, the
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