Appeal No. 2001-0558
Application No. 08/966,708
(Paper No. 22) for the respective positions of the appellants
and the examiner with regard to the merits of these
rejections.
DISCUSSION
Page 1, lines 12 through 32, of the appellants’
specification describes the admitted prior art in the
following words:
For the assay of different liquids, analytic
laboratories employ automatic analyzers in which the
liquids to be assayed are placed in reaction
vessels, designed to perform simultaneously as
cuvettes of high optical quality. Generally, a row
of reaction vessels or single-cell cuvettes may be
combined into a multicell module of reaction
vessels, separated from each other by a vertical
wall and cast into a single-piece row. Herein, the
reaction vessels are adapted side-by-side into an
integral module with a common wall separating any
two adjacent vessels and the long vertical sides of
the multicell cuvettes made straight so that the
multicell cuvettes in turn can be placed side-by-
side into a contiguous row in which the long sides
of the cuvettes are tightly adjacent to each other.
Thus, the cuvettes can be stored in a rectangular
container during transport and other handling. Such
a multicell cuvette design is disclosed in US Pat.
No. 4,690,900. Cuvettes of the above-described type
are easy to handle and give reliable measurement
results.
As conceded by the examiner (see page 3 in the answer),
the package of multicell cuvettes embodied by the admitted
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