The filed document and the intended amendment

A fictional patent application contains a description and drawings as filed. During examination, the applicant proposes narrowing a claim by combining two features that appear separately in different examples. A team member says every narrowing amendment is automatically allowed because its scope is smaller. The case does not establish whether the complete combination is directly and unambiguously disclosed in the original application. Students must identify the relevant added-subject-matter issue and distinguish it from the separate question of claim breadth. The exercise also does not establish novelty or inventive step merely because the amendment is useful for answering an objection. The requested response is a structured check of the actual disclosure rather than an invented legal conclusion.