Appeal No. 2002-1626 Page 2
Application No. 09/287,135
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a feeder and feeding technique for feeding a
plurality of randomly oriented electronic chip components in an aligned state
(specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to
the appellants' brief.
Claims 7, 8 and 16 to 19 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 appellants, at the time
the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.1
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the answer
(Paper No. 17, mailed January 29, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 15, filed December 17, 2001) and
reply brief (Paper No. 18, filed February 27, 2002) for the appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
1 The two prior art rejections set forth in the final rejection were withdrawn by the examiner in the
answer.
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