Interference No. 105,113
JUDGE MARTIN: Does your claim language spin, rinse and dry chamber
require that there be a top on the spin, rinse and dry apparatus?
MR. BOOTH: No.
Hearing Transcript10 at 24, l. 5 to p. 25, l. 8. Counsel based this interpretation on the above-noted
definition of "enclose" to mean "surround on all sides":
MR. BOOTH: The dictionary says surround on all sides.
JUDGE MARTIN: So you would exclude the top and bottom?
MR. BOOTH: That isn't a side.
JUDGE MARTIN: That isn't a side?
MR. BOOTH: It excludes the top in that context.
Hearing Transcript at 26, ll. 6-13. Counsel for Ritzdorf agreed that the term "chamber" does not
require a top:
MR. ROCKEY: . . .
. . . .
But I think perhaps the more important point is that when you read
chamber the way Cheung is suggesting [in the preliminary motion] that it must be
read, it's not even consistent with the specification. I think as Judge Martin
pointed out, that's -- I think that's a very important point.
Another example, if you look at --
JUDGE McKELVEY: Because it doesn't have to have a top?
MR ROCKEY: Yeah, exactly, exactly. . . .
Hearing Transcript at 29, l. 16 to p. 30, l. 3. Other than agreeing that a top is not required,
Ritzdorf has not offered a definition of "chamber." Thus, the parties appear to agree that
10 Paper No. 60.
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