Appeal No. 96-2266
Application 08/156,794
claims 16 to 24 would be allowable if rewritten in independent
form.
Claim 1 is representative of the subject matter in issue:
1. An apparatus for the introduction or removal of
liquid based material to or from a blood vessel of a patient
by a clinician comprising:
means for connecting into the blood vessel to
continuously introduce liquid based material into or remove
liquid based material from the blood vessel, said connecting
means fluidically sealed and self-sealing such that the liquid
based material is prevented from escaping from the apparatus
and coming into contact with the clinician at all times during
installation and operation of the apparatus; and
means for controlling whether liquid based material is
continuously introduced into or removed from the blood vessel
while the connecting means is in contact with the blood vessel
without escape of the liquid based material therefrom, said
controlling means in fluidic connection with said connecting
means.
The references relied upon by the examiner in the final
rejection are:
Thomas et al. (Thomas) 3,859,998 Jan. 14, 1975
Frankhouser et al. (Frankhouser) 4,417,886 Nov. 29, 1983
Christian 5,141,498 Aug. 25, 1992
(filed Sep. 10, 1991)
The claims on appeal stand finally rejected as follows:
(1) Claims 1, 2 and 26, anticipated by Christian, under
35 U.S.C. § 102(e);
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