Appeal No. 97-1438
Application 08/339,142
these latter claims would be allowable, according to the
examiner
(Paper No. 17), when the amendment filed January 21, 1997 is
entered subsequent to this appeal.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a portable limb support
device. An understanding of the invention can be derived from
a reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which appears in the
appendix on page 16 of the brief (Paper No. 13).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Barnes 1,632,160 Jun. 14, 1927
Lechner 4,681,309 Jul. 21, 1987
Lipson 5,000,168 Mar. 19, 1991
Meals 5,111,808 May 12, 1992
Simmons et al. 5,111,983 May 12,
1992
(Simmons)
The following rejections are before us for review.
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