Appeal No. 2003-0106
Application 09/502,680
Figure 3, takes place in a stepwise fashion via a series of such
small, incremental movements.
Thus, in the context of the present application, the claim
language “angularly adjusting the height of the holder
incrementally and thereby the height of the at least one plate
incrementally,” must be construed to mean that in moving from the
fully lowered position seen in Figure 4 of the application to the
fully extended condition seen in Figure 3, the parallelogram
linkage (20) moves angularly upwardly in a series of small steps
or increments caused by repeated movements of the handle/rod
(102) of the actuator (22), with the plate holders (16, 18)
mounted on linkage (20) likewise moving incrementally upwardly in
a series of small steps. In our view, this is the broadest
reasonable interpretation consistent with appellants’
specification, when the claim language in question is read, not
in a vacuum, but instead in light of the specification as it
would have been interpreted by one of ordinary skill in the
pertinent art.
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