Appeal No. 2005-1471 Page 2
Application No. 10/028,833
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a hospital bed (title). A copy of the
dependent claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
Claim 38, the only independent claim on appeal, reads as follows:
A bed comprising:
a frame;
a deck supported by the frame;
a patient support surface supported by the deck;
a siderail coupled to one of the frame and the deck, the siderail being
configured to move between a raised position in which at least a portion of the
siderail extends above the patient support surface and a lowered position in
which the siderail is positioned below the patient support surface;
a display screen coupled to the siderail, and
a processor in communication with the display screen, the processor
being configured to provide variable graphical information to the display screen.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Mitchell 4,612,679 Sep. 23, 1986
Marra, Jr. (Marra) 5,097,550 Mar. 24, 1992
Williams et al. (Williams) 5,542,138 Aug. 6, 1996
Claims 38 and 65 to 69 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Marra in view of Williams.
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