Appeal No. 2000-0323 Page 18
Application No. 08/608,920
catheter (22, 236) includes the elongated flexible tube (26,
240).
For the reasons set forth above, the claimed dilator is
not readable on Ruggio's catheter. Accordingly, the decision
of the examiner to reject claims 1 to 6, 8 to 11 and 14 to 20
under
35 U.S.C. § 102(e) is reversed.
The obviousness rejection
We have reviewed the reference to Lee applied in the
35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claims 12 and 13 but find nothing
therein which makes up for the deficiency of Ruggio discussed
above. Accordingly, the decision of the examiner to reject1
claims 12 and 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
CONCLUSION
1Claims 12 and 13 recite an introducer system comprising,
inter alia, a dilator, an elongated introducer sheath and
means integrally formed with the dilator for introducing
contrast media adjacent the distal end of the dilator.
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