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REVERSED
To the extent that the Examiner is treating these limitations as
intended use recitations, we disagree. These functional recitations provide
for a compositional structure when a certain condition is met. A patent
applicant is free to recite features of a composition either structurally or
functionally. See, e.g., In re Schreiber, 128 F.3d 1473, 1478 (Fed. Cir.
1997); cf. MPEP § 2173.05(g) (“A functional limitation must be evaluated
and considered, just like any other limitation of the claim, for what it fairly
conveys to a person of ordinary skill in the pertinent art in the context in
which it is used. A functional limitation is often used in association with an
element, ingredient, or step of a process to define a particular capability or
purpose that is served by the recited element, ingredient or step.”)
Schreiber, In re, 128 F.3d 1473, 44 USPQ2d 1429 (Fed. Cir. 1997) 2111.02 , 2112 , 2114
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AFFIRMED-IN-PART
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