Appeal No. 96-2179 Page 14
Application 07/613,466
means 50 responsive to the
failure to sense an evoked
potential following the
generation of a pacing pulse
for controlling the
generation of a back-up
pacing pulse.
27. We find that means for generating pacing pulses at a
pacing rate is implicit in a rate-responsive pacemaker. The
means 50 is not disclosed or claimed in sufficient detail to
move it beyond what would have been known to a person having
ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention.
28. The disclosures of the present application and
Callaghan '497 are substantively identical. The
correspondences indicated below span the entire specification
excluding the claims:
SN 07/613,466 USP 4,878,497
Paper 1 (page:line) (column:line)
1:8-3:31 2:26-3:61
4:2-31 3:62-4:27
4:33-6:25 1:11-2:16
6:26-65:6 4:28-36:62
The only apparent differences lie in the ordering of the text,
the introduction, the stated objective, and some of the
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