Appeal No. 95-2580
Application 08/110,958
independent claim 1 on appeal, except that the exact location
of the longi- tudinal passages (111) on the inside wall of the
neck portion (106) therein (Figures 4 and 5) is not specified
as being “spaced from said longitudinal middle plane” of the
ampule defined by the separation plane of the mold in which
the ampule is formed, as set forth in appellant’s claim 1.
Hansen is silent concerning the exact location of the one or
more longitudinal grooves or passages to be formed in the
inside wall of the neck portion (106) or in the annular bead
(9) of the neck portion seen in Figure 3 of the patent (see
col. 4, lines 21-23).
Rose, like Hansen and appellant, discloses a plastic
ampule for use with a hypodermic syringe wherein the neck of
the ampule “may be of any shape suitable for mating with the
head of a syringe” (col. 4, lines 39-40). In addition, Rose
also dis- closes the use of vacuum-relief means in the form of
one or more grooves or channels formed in the inside wall of
the ampule neck that is mateable with the head of the syringe.
At column 3, lines 1-20, of Rose it is noted that
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