Appeal No. 96-1809
Application 08/094,724
dependent upon rejected independent claim 1 and claims 4-11
have been allowed by the examiner.
Claim 1 reads as follows:
1. A method of dispensing a liquid sample onto a test
element, said element having a test volume subtending a
surface area for that volume for receiving said sample, the
method comprising the steps of:
a) applying onto a transfer element having a liquid-
impermeable surface for supporting a liquid, a quantity of
liquid sample over substantially all of said supporting
surface, and
b) placing the transfer element liquid-supporting surface
in contact with all of said surface area of a test element at
once, thereby transferring substantially all of the liquid
sample on said surface of said transfer element as a surface-
dispersed quantity to said test element without the need for
extensive horizontal flow over said test element surface area.
The sole issue in this appeal is whether claim 1 was
properly rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being clearly
anticipated by Harrison.2
Discussion
2 U.S. Patent No. 3,776,184 to Harrison granted December 4, 1973
(hereinafter “Harrison”).
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