Appeal No. 96-1819
Application 08/112,151
The appellant’s invention pertains to a system for
collecting blood and other liquids from the wound of a patient
and for reinfusing collected blood back into the patient.
Independent claim 10 is further illustrative of the appealed
subject matter and a copy thereof may be found in the appendix to
the appellant’s brief.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Marx 4,573,992 Mar. 04, 1986
Choksi et al. (Choksi) 5,074,839 Dec. 24, 1991
Claims 8-10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Marx in view of Choski.
The examiner’s rejection is explained on pages 2 and 3 of
the answer. The arguments of the appellant and the examiner in
support of their respective positions may be found on pages 2-5
of the brief and page 4 of the answer.
OPINION
We have carefully reviewed the appellant's invention as
described in the specification, the appealed claims, the prior
art applied by the examiner and the respective positions advanced
by the appellant in the brief and by the examiner in the answer.
As a consequence of this review we will (1) reverse the rejection
of claims 8-10 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, (2) enter a new rejection
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