Appeal No. 97-2888
Application 08/389,077
based on
Michelson '943 in view of Heffington and Michelson '892. With
respect to claims 1, 6, 8, 16, 17, 21, 23, 34, 41, 42 and 61-
64, we enter new grounds of rejection under the provisions of
37 CFR
§ 1.196(b). We begin with the new grounds of rejection under
35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph.
Claims 1, 6, 8, 16, 17, 21, 34, 41, 42 and 61-64 are
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being
indefinite for failing to particularly point out and
distinctly
claim the subject matter which the appellant regards as the
invention.
Claim 1 calls for an adjustable surgical frame having
means for cantilevering at least a portion of the surgical
frame off the end of an operating table (the cantilevering
means is described in the specification at page 17 as
including the pivoting legs 146, 148, 150 and 152). Claim 1
4
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