Appeal No. 2000-0320 Page 3
Application No. 08/480,082
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to devices and methods
for preventing the formation of post-surgical adhesions
between a healing trauma site and adjacent surrounding tissue
(specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is
set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The two prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:1
Thompson 5,531,735 July 2,
1996
(filed Sept. 27, 1994)
Viegas et al. 5,587,175 Dec.
24, 1996
(Viegas) (filed Dec. 28, 1993)
Claims 1 to 9 and 18 to 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Viegas in view of Thompson.
1The other five references referred to by the appellants
(brief, pp. 7-10, 25-27) and the examiner (answer, p. 3) were
not relied upon by the examiner in the rejection under appeal.
Accordingly, we will not consider these references in this
appeal.
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