Appeal No. 2003-0786
Application 09/059,712
of the application drawings and the description thereof in the
specification that appellant has possession at the time of filing
of the present application of an asymmetrical wrenching system
including an asymmetrical fastener having “a single fastener
periphery” and an asymmetrical wrench having “a single wrench
periphery” designed and configured to engage each other, and
wherein each of the fastener periphery and the wrench periphery
includes a plurality of tightening surfaces and a plurality of
loosening surfaces formed thereon. In particular, we note that
the wrench (100) seen in Figure 5 of the application drawings and
the fastener (110) seen in Figure 6 clearly exemplify the recited
structure and the recited relationship between the single
fastener periphery and the single wrench periphery.
Unlike the examiner, we do not see that the recitation of “a
single fastener periphery” and “a single wrench periphery”
designed and configured to engage each other in appellant’s
“comprising” format claims in any way excludes that both the
fastener and wrench of appellant’s invention would also have
other peripheral surfaces. The claim language merely sets forth
that each of the elements of appellant’s invention (i.e.,
fastener and wrench) has a single periphery which is engageable
with the single periphery of the other.
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