Appeal No. 96-1808
Application 08/204,119
advanced by appellants and the examiner and agree with
appellants that the aforementioned rejections are not well
founded. Accordingly, we do not sustain these rejections.
Rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103
Claims 1-8, 10-33 and 45-48
Among claims 1-8, 10-33 and 45-48, there are three
independent claims, namely, claims 1, 30, and 32. Claim 1
requires that the head means includes a liquid media handling
means which is mounted for movement relative to the vessel and
to the shaft in the vessel, the shaft being coupled to a
paddle. In claim 30, the liquid media handling means is a
sampling means, and in claim 32 it is an aspiration means.
Each of the sampling means and aspiration means is mounted for
movement relative to the vessel and paddle therein.
The examiner argues that Cosgrove discloses a liquid
media handling means (16, 212 and 142) mounted for movement
relative to the vessel (12) and shaft (32) of the paddle (28),
and that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill
in the art to use Cosgrove’s liquid media handling means with
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