Appeal No. 1999-2626
Application 08/756,060
withdrawn from consideration pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.142(b).
The subject matter on appeal relates to “a nasal dilator
for maintaining one or more nasal passages of a nose in a
dilated condition” (specification, page 1). Claim 1 is
illustrative and reads as follows:2
1. A nasal dilator for dilating a first nasal passage
and a second nasal passage of a nose, comprising:
a first dilating element engagable to the outer wall of a
first nasal passage;
a second dilating element engagable to the outer wall of
a second nasal passage;
a bridge element traversing the nose and interconnecting
the first dilating member and the second dilating member, the
bridge includes an elastic element movable toward an expanded
configuration wherein the length of the elastic element
increases, and biases to a retracted configuration wherein the
length of the elastic element is reduced.
The references relied upon by the examiner in support of
the final rejection are:
2Our review of the appealed claims indicates that claim 5
is redundant with respect to parent claim 4 and that the word
“each” in the preamble of claim 8 is inconsistent with the
rest of the claim. These informalities are deserving of
correction in the event of further prosecution before the
examiner.
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