Appeal No. 99-0094
Application 08/482,589
smaller than the predetermined outside diameter of the cannula
to attach the sleeve to the cannula without mechanical
compression thereby forming a rib on the cannula.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
anticipation and obviousness are:
Zenick 3,470,604 Oct. 7,
1969
Scherer et al. (Scherer) 3,739,456 Jun.
19, 1973
Claims 1, 3, 5 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Zenick, and claims 1 through
5 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Scherer in view of Zenick.
Reference is made to the appellants’ brief (Paper No. 13)
and to the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 14) for the respective
positions of the appellants and the examiner with regard to
the merits of these rejections.
Turning first to the standing 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
rejection of claims 1, 3, 5 and 10, Zenick discloses a
method of producing a hypodermic needle assembly
including the steps of rolling onto the butt-end of
a sharpened cannula [1] a plurality of notched ribs
[3, 86]; axially press-fitting the butt-end of the
cannula into the undersized bore [11] of a
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