Appeal No. 2005-2750 Application 09/460,221 optical head moving means which is arranged below the optical disc and moves the optical head in the radial direction of the optical disc; disc discriminating means for discriminating the thickness of the disc substrate of the loaded optical disc and for generating the discrimination signal according to the result of the discrimination; and control means for generating the control signal to said holding means in accordance with the discrimination signal and for moving the aberration correcting means onto said optical path in which the occurrence of the aberration due to the disc substrate is smallest onto said optical path, and wherein the optical head records, reproduces, or erases the information signal onto/from the optical disc by the light flux which has transmitted the selected aberration correcting means. For reasons which will become apparent, it is not necessary to decide whether appellants are correct to argue that claim 6 is too indefinite to be read on any embodiment. However, we note that appellants have not explained whether this argument is based solely on the examiner’s § 112, ¶ 2 criticism of claim 6 (discussed infra) or whether it is based on other reasons which have not been identified. E. The rejections in the ‘629 application Claims 1-30 were rejected for indefiniteness under 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 2 for the following reasons: Claim 1 recites “N converging means whose . . . thickness[es];”. However, it is not clearly recited according to what structural element or means the aberrations had been corrected. Claim[s] 2 & 4-9 [recite] “disc discriminating means”. Is the above means the same as the one in claim 1 and if not what is the difference? Claim 4 recites “control means for selecting the light emitting means”. It is not clear whether the selection means selects one of the objective lenses or one of the light beams? Claim 6 & 7 also recites “-- in accordance with a control signal”. However, the claim fails to recite the source of a control signal. 9Page: Previous 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007