Appeal 2007-1432
Application 09/141,186
Patent 5,549,673
of implantation for surgically medializing a paralyzed or
bowed vocal cord.
2. The invention actually claimed in U.S. Patent 6,144,380, is
more specifically directed to “[a] system of phonosurgery implantation for
insertion by a surgeon through an opening formed in a patient's thyroid
cartilage to stabilize a vocal cord” so “the surgeon can insert and move the
selected implant body in the opening in the thyroid cartilage.” (See Patent
claims 1-3).
3. The patent sought to be reissued was based on Application
08/118,097 (which we refer to as the “original application” even though it is
the second application in the sequence), filed September 8, 1993, which is
said to be a continuation of Application 07/511,454 (which we refer to as
“the parent”), filed April 20, 1990, now abandoned.
B. Prosecution history of the parent application
4. As filed, parent application 07/511,454 contained claims 1-17,
directed to a phonosurgery implant, a system of phonosurgery implantation,
and a method of sizing and implanting a phonosurgery prosthesis.
5. Claims 1-11 were directed to the phonosurgery implant.
Claim 2 specifically recited that the implant includes “a sloped surface.”
6. Claims 12-16 were directed to the system of phonosurgery
implantation. Claim 13 depended from claim 12, claim 14 depended from
claim 13, and claims 15 and 16 depended from claim 14.
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