Appeal No. 95-3598
Application 08/125,671
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1, 4 and 7 through 25, all of the claims
remaining in this application. Claims 2, 3, 5 and 6 have been
canceled.
The subject matter on appeal is directed to a
laparoscopic surgical apparatus and a laparoscopic surgical
method. Claims 1 and 18 are illustrative of the subject matter on
appeal and a copy of those claims, as reproduced from the
Appendix to appellants' brief, is attached to this decision.
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Vise 3,845,771 Nov. 5, 1974
Zarudiansky 4,302,138 Nov. 24, 1981
Scott S. Fisher (Fisher), “Telepresence master glove controller
for dexterous robotic end-effectors,” 726 Intelligent Robots and
Computer Vision 396-399 (1986).
Claims 1, 4 and 7 through 25 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as being based on a
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