Appeal No. 1997-0926
Application No. 08/552,045
disclosure as a blueprint to reconstruct the claimed invention
from the isolated teachings of the prior art. See, e.g.,
Grain Processing Corp. v. American Maize-Products Co., 840
F.2d 902, 907, 5 USPQ2d 1788, 1792 (Fed. Cir. 1988).
The Rejection of Claims 1-3 Under 35 U.S.C. § 103
Over Yoshida in view of Valentine
Claim 1 recites a medical device coated with a mixture of
a silicone based lubricant and either vitamin E or vitamin E
acetate.
Yoshida teaches a medical bag, such as a blood bag,
comprising a pair of heat-sealable thermoplastic plastic
sheets (e.g., polyvinyl chloride, polyolefin such as
polyethylene, an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer or the like)
(col. 4, lines 60-68) with polyvinyl chloride being the
preferred material (col. 2, lines 12, 13). In order to
prevent blood platelets from
adhering to the plastic sheets and the sheets from adhering to
each other, the plastic sheets forming the sides of the bag
are coated with a solution of a silicone resin composition
containing dimethylsiloxane and an aminosilane coupling agent
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