Appeal No. 1997-1145 Page 2
Application No. 08/210,229
22 have been allowed, and claims 5, 6 and 20 have been
indicated as containing allowable subject matter.
The appellant's invention is directed to a vertebral disk
stabilizer. The claims before us on appeal have been
reproduced in an appendix to the Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Kuntz 4,349,921 Sep. 21, 1982
Meyers 5,324,292 Jun. 28, 1994
(Filed Feb. 10, 1993)
THE REJECTIONS
Claim 4 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as being indefinite in that it fails to particularly
point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the
appellant regards as the invention.
Claims 1-4, 16 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(e) as being anticipated by Meyers.
Claims 1-3, 16 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being anticipated by Kuntz.
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