Appeal No. 1998-2381
Application No. 08/304,725
the
§ 103 rejection cannot be sustained.
Independent claims 1 and 48 each call for a perfusion
assembly for extracorporeal transfer of fluids comprising,
inter alia, a console; at least two flanking units atop the
console; and a central cavity adapted to receive an oxygenator
between the at least two flanking units. The flanking units
are further defined in claims 1 and 48 as comprising at least
one pump
assembly and at least one of a pump assembly, a parameter
monitoring assembly, a display monitor or a controller.
We are informed by appellants’ specification that it was
known in the art at the time appellants’ invention was made to
mount a perfusion system, including a vertical or horizontal
row of discrete units, on a wheeled console [34] (page 4 and
Figure 1). The discrete units included pump assemblies (pump
housings
and instrumentation panels) and a controller unit (for
monitoring
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