Appeal No. 95-2220
Application No. 08/059,682
calcium carbonate in tablet form. One of ordinary skill in
the art, however, would have been led to combine all the
ingredients in the tablet form, in our view, motivated by the
goal of simplifying the procedure.
Barron’s teaching that the range of ingredients utilized
in his composition “will be apparent to one skilled in the
art” (page 2, lines 37-39) raises a prima facie case of
obviousness for the subject matter of appealed claims 5
through 8 and 12. Moreover, Barron also teaches the
administering of 5,000 I.U. of vitamin D which would
necessarrily be an amount of vitamin D
6
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007