Appeal No. 96-3203 Page 2
Application No. 08/081,984
application have been withdrawn from consideration as being
directed to a nonelected invention.
The claimed invention relates to a non-permanent blood
clot filter which is adapted to be inserted into a blood
vessel. The filter is formed from a single high memory
coiled wire having a cylindrical segment (14b) and a conical
segment (14a). According to claim 21, the only independent2
claim on appeal, the cylindrical segment extends from a
first end (16) of the coiled wire to an “intermediate
position,” and the conical segment extends from the
intermediate position to the second end (18) of the coiled
wire.
A copy of the appealed claims is appended to
appellant’s brief.
2 The cylindrical and conical segments are described in
the specification as cylindrical and conical portions.
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