Appeal No. 95-3406
Application 07/940,016
Second College Edition, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1982. Thus, we
have applied this interpretation of the term "ridge means" in
analyzing the claims before us in this appeal.
Turning to the disclosure of the Stiso reference, it is
clear that Stiso discloses a casing 20 for a test strip 24, the
casing comprising a top member 26 and a bottom member 28. The
top member includes a first opening 58 and a second opening 54,
with the second opening defined by two pairs of opposing sides
(note Figures 1 and 2), with the two longitudinal opposing sides
bearing indicia (note Figure 4) and sloping downwardly from top
to bottom and terminating in opposing edges that define the
opening 54. As apparent from Figure 3 of Stiso, these opposing
edges terminate in a ridge means in the same manner that we
understand the edges of appellant’s second opening to terminate
in "ridge means" as discussed above. Furthermore, contrary to
appellant’s argument on page 4 of the brief that neither of the
edge lines 30,32 of Stiso is “on the bottom of the top member,”
clearly the pair of longitudinal edge lines 30 are on the lower
side of the top member (Figure 5) and engage with the pair of
longitudinal, upwardly extending edge lines 32 on the bottom
member (Figure 8). These edge lines 30,32 are sealed together as
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