HATFIELD, Associate Judge.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting claim 12 in appellant's application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to "surgical tape."
The appealed claim reads: "12. As a complete article of manufacture a surgical tape comprising a laminated ribbon of submucous animal intestinal tissue."
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