Appeal No. 95-4890 Application 08/035,002 nevertheless, the examiner invites attention to Example V of Nichols (Answer, pages 3 and 4). Likewise, applicants focus on Example V of Nichols in the Brief before the Board, pages 5 and 6. We agree with applicants and the examiner that the Example V composition of Nichols constitutes the closest prior art with respect to composition claim 12. In Example V, Nichols discloses an oil-in-water emulsion containing 500 parts by weight liquid petrolatum (oil) where the total composition contains 1,000 parts. That is, the Example V emulsion contains 50% by weight oil which meets the terms of claim 12. Without question, the amount of water in Example V is within the range recited in claim 12 (25% to 98.5% by weight water). The only remaining question is the precise percent by weight of collagen solids contained in the oil-in-water emulsion of Example V. The collagen dispersion used in Example V is that of Example I of Nichols. In Example I, Nichols discloses the following: To one hundred parts of a mass of swollen collagen fibrils, prepared as described in Example I of United States Patent No. 3,123,482 is slowly added with 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007