Appeal No. 97-1029
Application 08/456,166
James V. Cartmell et al. appeal from the final rejection
of claims 25 through 30, all of the claims pending in the
application. As the result of an amendment subsequent to
final rejection, the examiner has withdrawn all rejections of
claim 26 and this claim now stands objected to as depending
from a rejected base claim. Thus, only the standing
rejections of claims 25 and 27 through 30 remain for review.
The invention relates to “a wound packing in the form of
a flexible spirally-cut layer capable of absorbing wound
exudate” (specification, page 1). Claim 25 is illustrative
and reads as follows:
25. A wound packing comprising:
a flexible wound packing material capable of absorbing
wound exudate, said flexible material being in the form of a
substantially flat, coiled, spirally-cut layer impregnated
with a hydrogel material.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
anticipation and obviousness are:
Romaine 4,377,160 Mar. 22, 1983
Koide et al. (Koide) 5,395,305 Mar. 7, 1995
(filed Aug. 16, 1991)
The claims on appeal stand rejected as follows:
a) claim 27 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as
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