In re Eynde

LANE, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals, adhered to on reconsideration, sustaining the rejection of claims 16-21 of appellants’ application1 as based on a specification which fails to satisfy the requirements of the first paragraph of 35 U.S. C. § 112. We remand this case to the board for the reasons and purposes hereafter set forth. The most difficult aspect of this appeal is the determination of the propriety of the board’s refusal to consider certain patents and publications submitted by appellants subsequent to the board’s original decision as an…