Appeal No. 97-1029
Application 08/456,166
reciting that the wound packing has outer surfaces” (reply
brief, page 2), appear to acquiesce to the examiner’s
position. Accordingly, we shall sustain the standing 35
U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, rejection of claim 27.
We shall not sustain, however, the standing 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) rejection of claims 25, 28 and 29 as being
anticipated by Romaine, or the standing 35 U.S.C. § 103
rejection of claim 30 as being unpatentable over Romaine in
view of Koide.
Romaine discloses a “compression bandage adapted to be
wrapped around a selected portion of the human or animal body,
for minimizing swelling caused by a sprain, contusion or
bruise” (column 1, lines 6 through 9). The bandage 10 is an
elongate, flat, pliant strip of flexible, open-cell, synthetic
resin foam 11 impregnated with a high water content gel 12.
As explained by Romaine,
[t]he thickness of the strip is ordinarily in the
range of about 3/16 to about 5/16 inch, preferably
about ¼ inch. The width of the strip is selected so
that the body part can be completely wrapped by
making only a few turns of the bandage around the
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