Appeal No. 2006-0526 Παγε 2
Application No. 10/206,620
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a vascular graft for repair of damaged or
diseased sections of blood vessels, the graft being crimped1 only on those areas where
flexibility is required, such as a portion to be placed at a curved location of the vessel.
According to appellants' specification (pages 1 and 2), this is an improvement over the
common practice of crimping grafts over their entire surface. Claims 1 and 22 are
representative of appellants' invention and are reproduced below in the opinion section
of this decision.
The Rejection
Claims 1-14 and 22-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Lunn2.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the answer
(mailed July 26, 2004) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection,
and to the brief (filed May 26, 2004) and reply brief (filed September 20, 2004) for the
appellants' arguments thereagainst.
1 The term "crimped" appears to have been used by appellants in the sense of corrugated.
2 US Pat. No. 5,476,506, issued December 19, 1995.
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