Appeal No. 97-3136 Page 3 Application No. 08/312,780 BACKGROUND The appellants' invention relates to a laser medical device. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix to the appellants' brief. The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are: Ammann 4,165,469 Aug. 21, 1979 Berger et al. (Berger) 5,181,214 Jan. 19, 1993 Buys et al. (Buys) 5,336,217 Aug. 9, 1994 Claims 1 through 4 and 6 through 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Berger in view of Ammann and Buys. Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the final rejection (Paper No. 8, mailed April 4, 1996) and the examiner's answer (Paper No. 16, mailed February 28, 1997) for the examiner's completePage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007