Appeal No. 1997-3797 Page 3 Application No. 08/121,820 BACKGROUND The appellants' invention relates to a method of irradiating a blood product (claims 25 to 38) and a method of medically treating a blood product (claims 39 to 41). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief. The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are: Ryan 2,693,189 Nov. 2, 1954 Bujan et al. 3,915,212 Oct. 28, 1975 (Bujan) Daly et al. 4,121,714 Oct. 24, 1978 (Daly) Vazquez 4,526,404 July 2, 1985 Brown 4,857,713 Aug. 15, 1989 Miripol et al. 4,866,282 Sep. 12, 1989 (Miripol) Cooke et al. 5,006,050 Apr. 9, 1991Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007