Appeal No. 95-0526
Application No. 08/038,533
Claims 1 to 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Scordato in view of Rainin.
Claims 13, 6, 8 to 14, 19, and 20 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Freeman in view of
Citrin and Lyman.
Claims 15 to 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Freeman, Citrin, and Lyman as applied to
claims 13, 6, 8 to 14, 19, and 20 and further in view of Scordato
and Rainin as applied to claims 1 to 4.
In his brief, appellant urges that to the extent his
arguments are presented with respect to specific claims, it is
appellant’s intention that those claims do not stand or fall with
the claims with which they are grouped. Claims 1, 13, and 15 are
sufficiently representative of their groups and are as follows:
1. A micropipette tip package for micropipette tips each
having an upper, hollow, tapered, generally cylindrical barrel
portion joined to a lower, hollow, generally cylindrical,
aspirating tip portion, both lying along a common vertical axis,
said micropipette tip package comprising:
(a) a generally hollow housing having four cojoined
sidewalls depending from a horizontal cojoining upper
surface to define an open skirt;
(b) said upper surface having defined therein a plurality
of openings to frictionally engagingly accommodate
therein the distal, wider, ends of said upper portions
of a said micropipette tips;
(c) a horizontal internal support plate disposed in said
housing and spaced from said upper surface, said
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