Ex Parte 5073484 et al - Page 9

                Appeal 2007-0725                                                                                
                Reexamination Control 90/006,785                                                                
                Patent 5,073,484                                                                                
                applied to claims 1, 2, 4-6, 8 and 9 above, and further in view of any one of                   
                Ruhenstroth-Bauer et al, Brown et al and Deutsch et al.”  (Br. at 14 and App.                   
                4).                                                                                             
                32.   As to Deutsch, the Examiner stated, “[i]t would be obvious that any                       
                known reaction within reasons [sic] could be incorporated in the modified                       
                method and apparatus of either Morison and Bauer, as see, for example the                       
                immunoreactions of ….  Deutsch et al.” (Br. at 14 and App. 4).                                  
                33.   Claim 10 (since cancelled) depended from claim 9, which read as                           
                follows:                                                                                        
                       Method for the quantitative analysis of an analyte in a carrier liquid,                  
                characterized by the steps of:                                                                  
                       Providing a fluid-permeable solid medium defining a flow path                            
                and  having  predetermined  number  of  successive,  spaced  reaction                           
                zones in the path of flow, said reaction zones having immobilized                               
                therein a reactant reactive with the analyte or any analyte derivative or                       
                both to result in the formation of a predetermined product;                                     
                       Flowing said fluid along the flow path and sequentially through                          
                the spaced reaction zones; and                                                                  
                       Detecting the presence of analyte, analyte derivative, reactant or                       
                predetermined product in the reaction zones;                                                    
                       The  amount  of  analyte  in  the fluid being a function of the                          
                number of zones in which such detection occurs.                                                 
                (Br. at 14 and App. 4 ).                                                                        
                34.  Claim 10 read as follows:                                                                  



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