Appeal No. 2006-1300
Application No. 08/203,672
includes a scale 27 printed on its upper surface for
measuring the volume of received milk and a space 28 on the
tear strip for accommodating printed instructions.
In use, one opens the bag by removing the tear strip,
fills the bag with milk collected by a breast pump and
closes the bag by folding the open end and securing it with
adhesive tape (see column 6, line 6, through column 7, line
12). After the filled bag is closed, the user writes the
date or like information on its upper surface and stores it
in a freezer (see column 7, lines 13-17). When it is
desired to feed the milk to a baby, the user removes the
bag from the freezer, warms the milk and pours it into a
conventional baby bottle, and discards the bag (see column
7, lines 13-25).
Yanase ‘104 teaches that the milk can be initially
collected by way of a breast pump such as that disclosed in
U.S. Patent No. 3,977,405 to Yanase (Yanase ‘405) and then
poured into the bag by inserting the end of the breast pump
through the opening in the bag (see, for example, column 1,
lines 20-33; column 1, line 60, through column 2, line 2;
column 3, lines 4-8; and column 6, lines 35-53). Yanase
‘104 also discloses that this breast pump embodies a baby
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