Appeal No. 97-1438
Application 08/339,142
Claim 1, the sole independent claim on appeal, is drawn
to a portable limb support device comprising, inter alia, “a
plastic-fabricated upper-half that possesses an upper and
lower extension”, “a plastic-fabricated bottom-half that also
possesses an upper and lower extension”, the upper-half
connected directly to the bottom half, one of the bottom-
half’s upper extension and the upper-half’s lower extension
having at least one notched load-bearing cam surface and the
other of the bottom-half’s upper extension and the upper
half’s lower extension having a cam follower, and with the cam
follower being repositionable along the cam surface such that
the upper-half can be repositioned and locked in at least one
of an inclined, declined, and leveled position.
Reading the language of claim 1 in view of the underlying
disclosure, we readily understand the claim as clearly setting
forth a device comprising an upper-half and a lower-half,
i.e., two parts, that when directly connected to one another,
make up the whole of the device claimed.
We turn now to the Lipson and Barnes patents, applied by
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