Appeal 2006-1865
Application 09/660,433
Patent 5,802,641
I. STATEMENT OF CASE
1. Appellant appeals under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from a final rejection of
claims 14-100 entered May 21, 2002. We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C.
§ 6(b).
2. Independent claim 14 under appeal reads as follows:
Claim 14. A leg positioning apparatus comprising
a support device,
a leg cradle coupled to the support device and movable about a first plurality
of axes relative to the support device,
a clamping device coupling the support device to a mounting device, the
clamping device being configured to clamp the motion of the support device
relative to the mounting device and to release the support device for rotative
movement relative to the mounting device about a second plurality of axes, the leg
cradle being movable about the first plurality of axes when the support device is
clamped against movement about the second plurality of axes,
an actuator device configured to move the clamping device to selectively
clamp and release the support device relative to the mounting device, and
an operator device remote from the clamping device and remote from the
actuator device, the operator device being operatively coupled to the actuator
device, the operator device being configured to operate the actuator device.
3. A copy of the claims 14-100 under appeal is set forth in the Claim
Appendix of Appellant’s Brief. 2
2 Appellant’s grouping of claims at pages 2-3 of the Brief contains several minor
errors. Claim “1000” will be read as claim “100”. Claims 86-87 and 96-97 will be
grouped with claims 85 and 95 from which they depend respectively.
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