Appeal No. 2002-0933
Application No. 09/325,944
representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
those claims can be found appended to appellant's brief.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Rague et al. (Rague) 4,851,694 Jul. 25, 1989
Fischell et al. 5,605,530 Feb. 25, 1997
(Fischell)
Claims 1 through 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph as being indefinite for failing to particularly
point out and distinctly claim that which appellant regards as
the invention.
Claims 1 through 15 also stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph, as containing subject matter which was
not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably
convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor, at
the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed
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