Appeal No. 2004-0967 Page 2
Application No. 10/145,031
BACKGROUND
The appellant’s invention relates to an insertion/removal jig for pulling out a
printed circuit board from electronic equipment. An understanding of the invention can
be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix to the
Brief.
Claims 1-16 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 inventor, 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 appellant regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the Answer
(mailed Oct. 7, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections,
and to the Brief (filed Aug. 13, 2003) and the Reply Brief (filed Dec. 8, 2003) for the
appellant’s arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the appellant’s specification and claims and to the respective positions articulated by
1A rejection of claims 1-16 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Barnes et al. U.S.
Patent No. 4,454,552 was withdrawn in the Answer.
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