Appeal No.96-0601
Application 08/104,965
DECISION ON APPEAL
James A. Ritz and Brian L. Fideler (the appellants) appeal
from the final rejection of claims 4-7, 9, 10, 12 and 13, the
only claims remaining in the application. We reverse. 2
The appellants’ invention pertains to a tool which is used
in the placement of implantable leads during a surgical
procedure. Independent claim 4 is further illustrative of the
appealed subject matter and reads as follows:
4. A tool for use in the placement of implantable leads,
comprising:
a capsule having a forward end, a rearward end and an
internal cavity, said internal cavity open to the rearward end of
said capsule, said capsule comprising first and second
longitudinally extending sections pivotally mounted to one
another at a pivot point, said first section fabricated of a
material which may be deformed manually, said capsule further
provided with latch means spaced from said pivot point for
mechanically latching said first and second sections to one
another and for mechanically unlatching said first and second
sections from one another in response to manual deformation of
said first section between said pivot point and said latch means.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Camps et al. (Camps) 5,241,957 Sep. 7, 1993
(filed Nov. 18, 1991)
2Claim 13 has been amended subsequent to final rejection.
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