Ex parte MARTIN et al. - Page 2




         Appeal No. 2001-2057                                                       
         Application 09/155,574                                                     


         examiner, if rewritten in independent form including all the               
         limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.                  


              Appellants’ invention pertains to a dispenser device for              
         dispensing a single dose of liquid.  A basic understanding of              
         the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim             
         1, a copy of which appears in the APPENDIX to the main brief               
         (Paper No. 10).                                                            


              As evidence of anticipation and obviousness, the examiner             
         has applied the documents listed below:                                    


         Fuchs                    5,368,201                     Nov. 29,            
                                                                1994                
         Weston                   5,370,318                     Dec.  6,            
         1994                                                                       
         Solignac                 5,511,698                     Apr. 30,            
         1996                                                                       


              The following rejections appear in the final rejection                
         dated June 6, 2000 (Paper No. 8).                                          




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