Appeal No. 1998-1433
Application No. 08/241,252
§ 112, first paragraph. In particular, we note the examiner's
statement in Paper No. 42, mailed May 16, 2003, that "the only
issue remaining on appeal in this application is the 35 U.S.C.
§ 112 rejection of claims 1 and 3-11." Although the examiner has
not indicated that the other claims remaining in the application
(i.e., claims 12, 14 through 30 and 32 through 39) are allowed or
allowable, no rejection of those claims is before us for review
in this appeal.
As noted on page 1 of the specification, appellants'
invention relates generally to a method of assembling an
apparatus and, more particularly, to a method of assembling fuel
injectors. In the paragraph bridging pages 2 and 3 of the
specification, appellants briefly describe the invention broadly
in the context of "an apparatus" having a plurality of components
requiring assembly and wherein the apparatus is of the type
including a set of one or more input parameters, a set of one or
more control parameters, and a set of one or more observed
resultant parameters. Further insight into this broader aspects
of appellants' invention may be had by reference to Figure 8 and
the description thereof at pages 24 and 25 of the specification,
and also to the last paragraph on page 30. The "preferred
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