Appeal No. 2003-1946
Application 09/156,952
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejection.
The appellants provide no statement that the claims do not
stand or fall together (brief, page 4). The claims, therefore,
stand or fall together and, accordingly, we limit our discussion
to one claim, i.e., claim 1, which is the sole independent claim.
See In re Ochiai, 71 F.3d 1565, 1566 n.2, 37 USPQ2d 1127, 1129
n.2 (Fed. Cir. 1995); 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(1997).
Brodner discloses a centrifuge tube comprising a specimen
container (10) and a sleeve (12) having a cylindrically shaped
interior chamber (42) sized for telescopically receiving a lower
portion (44) of the specimen container’s tubular body (18)
(col. 1, lines 10-13; col. 3, lines 3-6). The sleeve has a
locking portion (46) for releasably holding the sleeve in secured
engagement with the tubular body after the tubular body has been
inserted into the sleeve (col. 3, lines 6-11 and 22-27).
Thus, when the specimen container and sleeve are in secured
engagement, they form a body. This body has an outer
surface (40), an open end (22) opposite a closed end (figure 4),
and outer, vertically oriented anti-rotation ridges (56) about
the outer surface (figure 2). The anti-rotation ridges have a
generally flat, longitudinally disposed surface extending
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