Ex parte Ionescu

When a claim is amenable to more than one interpretation, at least one of which reads on the prior art, the examiner should both reject the claim as indefinite and reject it over the prior art under that interpretation, and should specify whether the rejection is for indefiniteness or failure to claim the invention.

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