Appeal 2007-1940
Application 10/362,942
while compositions containing “12% and above including the 20-50% of
[Suzuki] do not meet” the claimed property ranges (Br. 7). Appellants
further state “as seen from the Table, once the SiO2 amount exceeds about
6%,” the values for the claimed properties are outside the claimed ranges
(Reply Br. 3). Appellants contend “the values used in the declaration for the
. . . [compositions] according to [Suzuki] are consistent with the values
disclosed in” Suzuki, as set forth in the following table:
[Declaration] Table 1a provides : [Suzuki] discloses:
La2O3 20.6% Ln2O3 Ln = lanthanide 20-50%
B2O3 15.7 B2O3 15.7%
TiO2 38.9 TiO2 10-40%
SiO2 22.0% SiO2 20-50%
BaO, SrO, ZrO2 1% each SrO 1-7%
Appeal Br. 8. Appellants contend the values used in the Declaration for the
tested compositions “are based on values disclosed in the” Specification
(Reply Br. 4-5).
The plain language of claims 21 and 23 encompass any manner of
glass ceramic mass containing the specified oxide ceramic ingredients and
the specified glass material ingredients in any amount resulting in a glass
ceramic mass having the composition properties of permittivity, quality, and
Tf value in the specified ranges. The ingredients “rare earth metal Rek” and
“rare earth metal Reg” are not defined in the claims or specifically in the
Specification, and thus, can be any member of the rare earth lanthanide and
actinide series as disclosed in the Specification (Specification 7:18-21). See,
e.g., In re Am. Acad. of Sci. Tech. Ctr., 367 F.3d 1359, 1364,
70 USPQ2d 1827, 1830 (Fed. Cir. 2004); In re Morris, 127 F.3d 1048,
1054-55, 44 USPQ2d 1023, 1027 (Fed. Cir. 1997); In re Zletz, 893 F.2d 319,
321-22, 13 USPQ2d 1320, 1322 (Fed. Cir. 1989). The open-ended terms
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