Appeal No. 96-0022
Application 08/096,214
claims 53-70 have been withdrawn from consideration. Claims 40,
41 and 45-52 stand objected to as being dependent upon a rejected
base claim but would be allowable if rewritten in independent
form.
The appellants' invention is a drug delivery apparatus
which according to the specification is utilized to deliver
treatment to a specific location of a body (Specification at page
1). The drug delivery apparatus includes a carrier means for
carrying a treatment to a specific location of the body. The
carrier means in one embodiment is disclosed as an implant sheath
device with a semi-permeable membrane filled with treatment
placed inside the implant sheath (Specification at page 3). A
leading magnet is releasably connected to the carrier means by a
connection means (Specification at page 4). The specification
discloses that the leading magnet is manipulated by a magnetic
field external to the body so as to move through the body to the
specific location in the body to be treated (Specification page
4-5). When the carrier means is in the location needing
treatment the connection means releases the magnet so that the
magnet can be directed out of the body (Specification, pages 4
and 8). Appellants' specification teaches that the connection
means is a heat-sensitive polymer which when inductively heated
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