Appeal No. 2000-1518
Application 08/604,105
The above-stated new ground of rejection set forth in our
earlier opinion concluded that the appellants did not present
any measure of possession of the capacitive coupling approach
presently set forth in each claim on appeal. In the Request,
appellants do not argue before us that the original assessment
of the present specification was in error. Stated differently,
appellants do not now assert that the present disclosure as
filed in the form of the written description, the drawings and
the originally filed claims, provided a basis for the presently
disputed claimed capacitive coupling approach in each claim on
appeal. The present specification as filed, in the initial lines
of page 1 thereof, made reference to two prior patents issued to
appellants, each of which was incorporated by reference into the
present application.
Pages 2 and 3 of the Request makes specific reference to
these two patents and particular portions within each of them,
urging that these portions provide a basis for the capacitive
coupling feature of the present claims on appeal. Because we
agree with appellants' views expressed in the Request as to
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