Appeal No. 2004-0615
Application No. 08/761,063
wherein a volume of a fluid within the microchannels of
the platform is moved through said microchannels by
centripetal force arising from rotational motion of the
platform for a time and a rotational velocity sufficient to
move the fluid through the microchannels.
THE REFERENCES
Cottingham 5,639,428 Jun. 17, 1997
(filed Jul. 19, 1994)
Zaffaroni et al. (Zaffaroni) 6,121,048 Sep. 19, 2000
(filed Oct. 18, 1994)
Takase et al. (Takase) 0 417 305 A1 Mar. 20, 1991
(European patent application)
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1-56, 64-70, 78-81 and 84 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Takase in view of
Cottingham and Zaffaroni.
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejection.
The appellants state that all of the claims stand or fall
with claims 1-3 (brief, page 5). The appellants, however, do not
argue the separate patentability of claims 1-3. Consequently,
the claims stand or fall together and we limit our discussion to
one claim, i.e., claim 1. 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).
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