Appeal No. 97-3294
Application 08/408,225
Before STONER, Chief Administrative Patent Judge, and CALVERT
and COHEN, Administrative Patent Judges.
COHEN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1 through 6 and 14 through 16, all of the claims remaining in
the application. 2
Appellants’ invention pertains to a device for
insertion into an opening of a human body. An understanding
of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claims 1 and 14, copies of which appear in the APPENDIX to
appellants’ main brief (Paper No. 15).
As evidence, the examiner has applied the document
listed below:
Blom et al. (Blom) 4,911,716 Mar. 27, 1990
A reference of record in this application, applied
in a new ground of rejection, infra, is:
Friese 4,610,659 Sep. 9, 1986
2We note that the present application, indicated to be a
division of application Serial No. 07/818,853 that matured
into U.S. Patent No. 5,300,119, includes a TERMINAL DISCLAIMER
(Paper No. 8) based upon the specified patent.
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