Appeal No. 97-2776
Application No. 08/252,363
magnetic field not greater than 20 gauss to relieve pain as
suggested and taught by Markoll and to have used the device to
reduce arthritic pain as suggested by Griffin.
Claim 29 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Nakayama in view of Markoll, as applied above
with respect to claim 31, and further in view of Griffin.
Dependent claim 29 adds to independent claim 31 the
limitation that the body is contacted with the S-pole of the
magnetic material. As set forth previously, Nakayama teaches
that the magnets are arranged so that the same polarity poles of
the magnets contact the selected part of the human body.
Further, as set forth above, Griffin teaches to first treat the
patient with the magnetic device in the N-pole mode (e.g., the
body is contacted with the N-pole of the magnetic material) and
then treating the patient in the S-pole mode (e.g., the body is
contacted with the S-pole of the magnetic material). It is our
opinion that it would have been further obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art at the time of the appellants'
invention to have contacted the selected part of the human body
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