Appeal 2007-2364
Application 09/879,613
11. The Specification does not describe any working examples of the
invention or of the prior art.
12. Claim 9 on appeal reads:
A packaged PVA sponge for use in clean rooms,
said cleaning article having particulate, metal ion and anionic
counts at or below the values specified for a clean room,
said package comprising a sealed flexible plastic bag,
said sponge being positioned in said bag, and containing a
quantity of de-ionized water,
said de-ionized water containing hydrogen peroxide in a
concentration effective to kill and retard the growth of
bacteria in said sponge, said amount being low enough to
substantially ensure decomposition of said hydrogen
peroxide in a relatively short period of time after the
container is sealed and being between 0.05 and 0.5% by
volume.
13. Independent claims 1 and 5 are similar, being drawn to methods of
packaging the PVA sponge; but they do not recited the particle, metal ion
and anionic count limitations, and the end points of the range of hydrogen
peroxide concentration are recited to be "around" or "about" 0.05 and
0.5% by volume.
14. Dependent claims 4 and 12 recite that the "volume" and the
concentration by volume, respectively, of hydrogen peroxide is
around 0.1%.
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