Appeal No. 95-1747
Application 08/047,994
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 9 through 18, which are all of the claims
remaining in this application. Claims 1 through 8 have been
canceled.
Appellant's invention relates to an opening device for
assisting a user in more easily opening a soft pack (e.g., a
blister package) of individually segregated unit dosages of
medications. A representative "soft pack" of medications is seen
in Figure 4 of appellant's drawings and is designated by
reference character (23) therein. As explained on pages 9-10 of
the specification,
[t]he opener or soft pack puncturing
mechanism has a base segment and a top
segment which are hingedly connected to one
another. The base segment has an orifice
located thereon which is of sufficient size
to receive a unit dosage section of a soft
pack commonly referred to as a “blister” and
the top segment has a protrusion adapted to
nest within the orifice of the bottom
segment. The protrusion of the top segment
has sufficient height so as to puncture a
dosage unit section of a soft pack
medication. When a dosage unit or “blister”
is placed within the orifice of the bottom
segment and the top segment is hingedly
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