Appeal No. 2004-0615
Application No. 08/761,063
with a thin, flexible film to seal them from the surrounding
environment (col. 3, lines 34-37 and 51-57; col. 7, lines 41-45
and 63-65; col. 8, lines 25-30; col. 8, line 67 - col. 9, line 8;
col. 18, lines 51-56; col. 19, lines 2-5). Cottingham teaches
that contamination of the laboratory by samples is a problem
(col. 1, lines 31-38; col. 2, lines 32-35) and that the fluid
flow channels in his apparatus are effectively sealed with
respect to contamination (col. 18, lines 51-56). Cottingham,
therefore, would have fairly suggested, to one of ordinary skill
in the art, covering Takase’s flow channels and reagent chambers
with a thin, flexible film to seal them with respect to
contamination.
Takase does not state that the instruction set is capable of
being read by a CD-ROM reader. However, Takase discloses that
1) the format on the bottom side of the disk can be bits, i.e.,
unevenness, formed during molding, 2) the position accuracy of
the formats can be the same as that of an optical disk, which is
very high, and 3) the formats are not limited to the disclosed
embodiment (col. 13, lines 1-19 and 50-52; col. 14, lines 10-11).
Hence, Zaffaroni’s teachings that 1) compact disks (like the
substrate on which Takase’s formats are formed) have very small
pits cut into their surface (col. 14, lines 38-41), 2) compact
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