Appeal 2006-1675
Application 10/415,798
which are, at most, only loosely twisted together.” Newly added claims 22,
25, and 26 also recite the plurality of filament wires as twisted.
In a non-final Office Action mailed May 20, 2004, the Examiner
objected to the drawing under 37 C.F.R. § 1.83(a) as not showing “every
feature of the invention specified in the claims” (non-final Office Action 2).
The Examiner specifically required “the twisted filament wires twisted at a
rate between 0 and 10 must be shown as claimed in the claims 22 and 26 or
the feature(s) canceled from the claim(s)” (id.). In addition, the Examiner
stated that “[n]o new matter should be entered” (id.). The Examiner made
no comments with respect to the Preliminary Amendment to the
Specification.
Appellant replied on August 20, 2004 by filing: (1) a second
amendment to the Specification, (2) a second amended Figure 1, (3) new
Figure 2, (4) a second amendment to the claims, and (5) Remarks to the
Examiner’s non-final Office Action. The Amendment to the Specification
principally added textual reference related to the new Figure 2 in the content
of the Specification. On pages 8 through 9 of the Remarks section,
Appellant maintained that no new matter was added in making the above
noted amendments.
In the Final Office Action mailed November 15, 2004, the Examiner
noted that the drawings submitted on August 20, 2004 were accepted
(Final Office Action 1). No other comments were made with respect to the
drawings and the amendments to the Specification and the claims.
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