Appeal No. 1998-2827
Application 08/614,494
remaining in the application, have been indicated by the
examiner as being allowable if rewritten in independent form
to include all the limitations of the base claim from which
they depend and any intervening claim. On page 1 of the brief
under the heading “Status of Claims,” appellant states that
“Claims 9-13 and 22 are rejected” and that “Claims 9-13 are
being appealed.” Thus, by implication, the final rejection of
claim 22 is not being appealed. Accordingly, the appeal as 2
to claim 22 is dismissed, leaving for our consideration only
the rejection of claims 9-13.
This appeal is related to Appeal No. 1999-0117 in
appellant’s copending Application No. 08/702,948 in that the
claimed subject matter in both appeals relates to a bone
implant device.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a dental or skeletal
implant for attaching prosthetic devices to bone tissue.
Claim 9 is illustrative of the appealed subject matter and
reads as follows:
9. A device for implantation in bone tissue, the device
2The cover letter accompanying the corrected brief makes
clear that this is appellant’s intent.
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