Appeal No. 2007-0999
Application No. 10/600,280
Briggs U.S. Pat. 5,641,464 Jun. 24, 1997
Sigler U.S. Pat. 5,722,537 Mar. 3, 1998
Appellants separately argue the patentability of certain claims. The
claims fall into the following groups: 1 1) claims 1, 4, 7-11, and 24;
2) claim 2; 3) claim 3; 4) claims 5 and 6; 5) claims 12-19; 6) claim 20; 7)
claim 21; and 8) claims 22 and 23. We select claim 1 as representative of
group 1; claim 5 of group 4; claim 12 of group 5; and claim 22 of group 8.
See 37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii). Claim 1-3, 5, 12, and 20-22 are
representative as read as follows:
1. A decontamination device for decontaminating medical apparatus,
comprising:
a housing;
an absorbent pad carrying a decontaminating compound placed
within said housing; and
structure for removably engaging said housing to a portion of
said medical apparatus,
whereby said absorbent pad is placed into contact with said
portion of said medical apparatus upon engagement and removed
from contact upon disengagement.
2. The decontamination device of claim 1, wherein said structure for
removably engaging said housing to said medical apparatus comprises
interlocking structure for engaging a portion of said medical
apparatus.
1 37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii) states that “[c]laims argued as a group should
be placed under a subheading identifying the claims by number.” Because
Appellants did not use subheadings when addressing the separate
patentability of certain groups of claims, we designated these groups based
on their arguments.
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