Appeal No. 97-2159
Application No. 08/127,555
final rejection, the appellants submitted an amendment adding
new independent claim 27 (see the amendment filed December 13,
1995 as Paper No. 14), and the examiner entered this amendment
(see the advisory action mailed January 16, 1996 as Paper No.
15). Thus, claims 3 through 5, 10 through 17 and 27 are
before us on this appeal (see the notice of appeal filed
January 16, 1996 as Paper No. 16).
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method of
preparing a molded, rapid disintegration human ingestible
tablet in which a wetted paste of tablet material is placed in
a mold cavity, compressed at a pressure of 5 to 100 Kg per 10
mm of tablet diameter, removed from the mold and dried to a
rapid disintegration tablet. This appealed subject matter is
adequately illustrated by independent claim 10 which reads as
follows:
10. In a method of preparing a molded, rapid
disintegration human ingestible tablet where a mold cavity is
filled with a wetted paste of material forming the tablet to
shape the wetted paste into a wetted tablet, the wetted tablet
is removed from the mold cavity and dried to a rapid
disintegration tablet, the improvement comprising compressing
the wetted tablet while in the mold cavity at a pressure of 5
to 100 Kg per 10 mm of tablet diameter.
The reference relied upon by the examiner in the
rejections before us is:
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