Appeal No. 1998-2381
Application No. 08/304,725
flanking units are a pump assembly and at least one of a pump
assembly, a parameter monitoring assembly, a display monitor
or a controller. Like appellants, we fail to perceive any
teaching or suggestion in the disclosures of Ford and Rota
which would have motivated one of ordinary skill in the art to
rearrange the
discrete units of the APA in the claimed configuration. In
fact, both Ford and Rota are lacking in any disclosure of
separating discrete units into at least two flanking units
with a central
cavity therebetween adapted to receive or which is capable of
receiving an oxygenator.
The examiner's other assertion (Answer, page 4) that the
claimed arrangement of known perfusion system components is a
matter of design choice is not persuasive.
In appellants' specification, at page 12, it is indicated
that the centralized location of the oxygenator can reduce
extracorporeal volume, improve the perfusionist’s reach of the
system components and the perfusionist’s view of the operating
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