Appeal No. 97-2776
Application No. 08/252,363
Under the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we enter the
following new grounds of rejection.4
Claims 24, 25, 27, 28, 29 and 31 are rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Nakayama in view of
Markoll.
Nakayama discloses a magnetic medical treatment device
for efficiently causing magnetic flux to act on a human body.
The magnetic medical treatment device comprises a plurality of
magnets so arranged that the same polarity poles of the magnets
contact a selected part of a human body. Nakayama states that
his invention is applicable to magnetic medical treatment devices
such as a wrist band, belly-band, pillow, bed, pad and plaster
which magnetically treat an affected part of a human body. 5
Additionally, Nakayama teaches that the increase rate of flux
density varies depending upon the arrangement of magnets, the
space between magnets and the material, size, shape and thickness
4We note that claim 26 has not been subjected to a new
ground of rejection since the prior art of record does not
establish that it was known to contact a portion of the human
body with magnetic material contained in fibers of a cloth or in
a resin.
5See column 1, lines 19-28, of Nakayama.
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