Appeal No. 95-2960
Application 08/009,381
We have carefully considered all of the arguments
advanced by appellants and the examiner and agree with the
examiner that
the invention recited in appellants’ claims 8-11, 15 and 16
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at
the time of appellants’ invention over the applied references.
Accordingly, the aforementioned rejections of these claims
will be affirmed. However, we will not sustain the rejection
of claims 12-14.
At the outset, we note that appellants state that claims
15 and 16 stand or fall with claims 8-11 and that claims 12-14
stand or fall separately (brief, page 4). We therefore limit
our discussion to one claim in each of these groups, namely,
claims 8 and 12. See In re Ochiai, 71 F.3d 1565, 1566 n.2, 37
USPQ2d 1127, 1129 n.2 (Fed. Cir. 1995); 37 CFR
§ 1.192(c)(5)(1993).
Isono discloses a method for forming a sterile connection
between two disassociated compressible rubber fluid conduit
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