Appeal No. 1999-0245
Application No. 08/720,268
stillwell, and to liquid gauging apparatus for an aircraft fuel
tank. A basic understanding of the invention can be derived from
a reading of exemplary claims 1, 11, and 16, respective copies of
which appear in the APPENDIX to the main brief (Paper No. 17).
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 1 through 5, 8, 11, 14, 16, 18, 19, and 21 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being
indefinite.1
Claims 1 through 5, 8, 11, 14, 16, 18, 19, and 21 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as containing
subject matter lacking description in the specification.
Claims 1 through 5, 8, 11, 14, 16, 18, 19, and 21 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as containing
subject matter which is not enabled by the specification.2
1 We have included claim 19 in this rejection, which claim
appears in the final rejection (Paper No. 14; page 4), but was
omitted from the statement of the rejection in the answer (Paper
No. 18; page 4).
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2 This rejection was a new ground of rejection set forth in
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