Appeal No. 1998-2673
Application 08/557,138
carrier member (Lee, page 2, lines 51-59). It is difficult to
know precisely what the examiner would have us understand in
Lee to define the depressed surface set forth in claim 19 on
appeal. Perhaps the examiner considers the surface of strip 5
seen in Figure 4 of Lee to be the depressed surface.
Alternatively, perhaps the examiner considers the surface of a
particular aperture 7 itself to be the depressed surface.
Irrespective of which of these the examiner would have us
consider to correspond to the depressed surface claimed by
appellants, we find no disclosure in Lee of a depressed
surface which “include[es] an opening formed in said carrier
member” as recited in claim 19. In our view, the only
openings that exist in the carrier member of Lee are the
recessed apertures 7 and these apertures are each
formed in only one or the other of the planar surfaces of the
document. None of the apertures 7 are located in any
depressed surface that may be formed as a result of the
aperture formation process. We find ourselves in agreement
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