Appeal No. 96-0918
Application 08/059,017
claims 23 to 25, 27 to 31, 33 and 34. Claims 10, 12 and 14 to
17 have been allowed. Claims 18 to 21, the only other
remaining
claims in the application, have been withdrawn from further
consideration under 37 CFR § 1.142(b) as not being readable on
the elected invention.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a device for cleaning
surgical instruments. The subject matter before us on appeal
is illustrated by reference to representative claim 23, a copy
of which is found in an appendix to appellants’ brief.2
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
support of the rejections are:
Larson 2,250,112 Jul. 22, 1941
Nordgren 3,107,665 Oct. 22, 1963
Racioppi 4,945,598 Aug. 7, 1990
Wechsler 515,233 Jun. 13, 1938
(United Kingdom)
Claims 23 to 25, 27, 29 to 31 and 33 stand rejected under
2In each of the independent claims on appeal, the height
of certain bristles is said to be "of the order of" one-tenth
of an inch. Consistent with the original disclosure (page 8,
line 22), we interpret same to mean "approximately" one-tenth
of an inch.
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