Appeal No. 2005-2350
Application No. 10/056,352
separately attachable carrier part 16 in figure 2b. Note the
teachings at column 2, lines 30 through 36; column 2, line 50 to
column 3, line 9; the discussion beginning at line 10 of column
3; the separate discussion of the carrier part beginning at line
66 of column 3 through at least column 4, line 12 as well as the
discussion at column 6, lines 4 through 63.
Among the significant teachings in these locations is that
the embodiments in which a separate carrier part is actually
manufactured, it may be separately glued or otherwise stuck or
pressed onto the tubular container of the test tube itself. It
also may be molded separately and then injection molded or
otherwise molded into a unitary structure along with the tubular
nature of the test tube itself. To the artisan, these teachings
would have clearly indicated a unitary structure in which there
is an integral bottom. In all embodiments the integral bottom is
shown and taught to be a flat bottomed portion of an overall test
tube structure like that claimed. Of particular note
additionally is the teaching with respect to figure 7 beginning
at column 7, line 22 through at least line 4 of column 8. The
discussion at the bottom of column 7 beginning at line 64 plainly
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