Ex Parte Yoshioka - Page 8

               Appeal 2007-1447                                                                            
               Application 10/214,588                                                                      


                                             OTHER ISSUES                                                  
                      In any further prosecution of the present application, the Examiner                  
               should consider rejecting claims 1 through 3, and 7  under 35 U.S.C. § 112,                 
               second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly claim the                 
               subject matter of the invention.  Independent claim 1 recites a first, second               
               and third receiving systems being part of a document display apparatus.                     
               However, Appellant’s Specification, at pages 11, and 12, merely discusses                   
               the display device without providing any particular structure corresponding                 
               to the claimed receiving systems.  As such, the recited receiving systems are               
               misleading and confusing thereby not particularly pointing out and distinctly               
               claiming the invention.  Dependent claims 2 and 3 incorporate the                           
               deficiencies of claim 1 by virtue of their dependency.                                      


                                               DECISION                                                    
                      We have affirmed the Examiner’s decision to reject claims 1 through                  
               3 and 7.                                                                                    











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