Appeal No. 1998-2424
Application 08/515,269
obvious. Boston shows an impermeable sheath that can be
folded or unrolled to be dispensed and placed in a container,
the open end of the sheath coinciding with the open end of the
container. Appellant argues that the sheath is not
bacteriologically impermeable. However, Boston is clearly
intended to keep the interior of the sheath sanitary and
sterile. Therefore, we regard bacteriological impermeability
as an inherently property of the sheath of Boston. For this
reason, we will affirm the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claim
22 based on the Boston reference.
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