Appeal No. 2000-0652 Page 3 Application No. 08/868,774 BACKGROUND The appellants' invention relates to medication dispensing devices (specification, p. 1). 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: Ben Moura 3,656,472 Apr. 18, 1972 Balkwill 5,279,586 Jan. 18, 1994 Claims 1, 5 to 7, 9 to 12 and 29 to 31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Ben Moura. Claims 4 and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Ben Moura. Claims 25 and 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Balkwill in view of Ben Moura.Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007