Appeal No. 96-1415
Application No. 08/088,625
unpatentable over Gilman ‘510 in view of Gilman ‘001. To
employ heat lamination as the particular means of releasably
attaching the Gilman ‘510 contact and dressing components
would be an obvious matter of design in selecting a particular
known means of releasably attaching dressing components, as
disclosed by Gilman ‘001.
(iv) Claim 46 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Gilman ‘510. In removing the cover
component 106 of Gilman in order to replace it, once a corner
of the cover sheet 126 was separated from the top surface 114
of sheet 102, it would have been obvious to hold down the
sheet 102 with one or more fingers while separating the rest
of sheet 126 therefrom, to insure that sheet 102 remained
attached to the patient’s skin.
(v) Claim 45 is rejected for failing to comply with 35
U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph. Parent claim 43 recites in
its last two lines that the contact component remains in place
over the wound, but claim 45 recites “if said first contact
component remains on the wound” (emphasis added). This
recitation in claim 45 is inconsistent with claim 43 in that
it implies that the contact component may not be on the wound,
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