Appeal No. 1997-4259
Application No. 08/259,474
specification. In this regard we note that the tactile
response of a normal human breast is itself a variable
quantity depending on factors such as the age of a patient,
breast size, fitness level of the patient, etc., and this is
before we further qualify the tactile response by indicating
that it need only be "substantially the equivalent" of the
tactile response of a normal human breast. See, for example,
Ex parte Brummer, 12 USPQ2d 1653, 1655 (Bd. Pat. App. & Inter.
1989).
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