Appeal No. 97-2555
Application No. 08/215,062 Page 7
expressly or inherently, the claimed ratio of height to thickness
of approximately two and one-half.
In our view, all the limitations of claims 1, 4 to 16 and 19
to 23 are not taught or suggested by Davis. Accordingly, the
examiner's rejections thereof are reversed.
Claims 82 and 86
We sustain the rejection of claims 82 and 86 under
35 U.S.C. § 102(a, b and e).
Independent claim 86 recites a vaginal discharge collector,
comprising, inter alia, a body means for providing a collection
space and an annular rim means for providing resilient outward
holding force sufficient for holding the collector in position
during use. The body means includes an annular opening2 and a
top. The annular rim means is affixed to the body means
proximate the top of the body means and is concentric with the
opening of the body means. Dependent claim 82 recites that the
2 We note that the openings shown in the appellants'
drawings are circularly shaped, not annularly shaped.
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