Appeal No. 1998-2854 Page 2
Application No. 08/500,278
We REVERSE and enter a new rejection pursuant to 37 CFR
§ 1.196(b).
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a system for
enhancing blood flow to and from the heart during
cardiopulmonary resuscitation of a patient. An understanding
of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claim 1, which appears in the appendix to the appellants'
brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner (i.e., the applied prior art) in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
2(...continued)
(Paper No. 5, mailed November 26, 1996) states that claims 1-9
are rejected, the detailed action (pp. 2-4) thereof only sets
forth rejections of claims 1 -7.
3While the examiner has approved entry of the amendment
after final rejection (Paper No. 6, filed March 3, 1997), we
note that this amendment has not been clerically entered.
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