Appeal No. 2003-1359 2
Application No. 09/285,260
THE INVENTION
Appellants’ invention pertains to a resilient insert for an artificial foot, wherein the
insert comprises at least one spring element for determining the spring rigidity of the
artificial foot, and an adapting device for changing the spring rigidity of the spring element
in response to a load placed on the artificial foot. A further understanding to the invention
can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1 and 24 which appear in the appendix
to appellants’ main brief.
THE APPLIED PRIOR ART
The references applied by the examiner against the claims in the final rejection are:
Robinson 4,892,554 Jan. 9, 1990
Phillips 5,728,177 Mar. 17, 1998
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 3 and 24-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph.1
Claims 1 and 23-29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Robinson.
Claims 1 and 23-29 stand further rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Phillips.
1In that claims 1, 3 and 24 constitute all the independent claims on appeal, it is
not clear why the examiner did not include all the appealed claims in this rejection.
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