Appeal No. 2005-2417
Application No. 09/999,660
II. The 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, rejection
According to the examiner (see pages 4 and 5 in the answer),
the appellant’s specification lacks written descriptive support
for the recitation in independent claims 4, 18 and 30 that the
material web looping sections passing over the cylinders are
connected for moving the material web along the looping sections
“at least approximately on a web path being meander-shaped,
always curved or non-rectilinear,” and for the further recitation
in dependent claims 31, 33, and 34 that the web path has
“substantially no straight line section.”1
The test for determining compliance with the written
description requirement of § 112, ¶ 1, is whether the disclosure
of the application as originally filed reasonably conveys to the
1 Although independent claim 1 also recites that the looping sections are connected for moving the
material web along the looping sections “at least approximately on a web path being meander-shaped,
always curved or non-rectilinear,” the examiner did not include it or dependent claim 3 in the rejection.
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