Appeal No. 2000-0324 Page 3
Application No. 08/763,874
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to systems and methods
for sensing temperature within the body (specification, p. 1).
A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix
to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Khalil 4,240,441 Dec. 23,
1980
Desai et al. 5,383,917 Jan. 24,
1995
(Desai) (filed July 5, 1991)
Claims 31-41, 44-49 and 56-61 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Desai in view of
Khalil.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the final rejection (Paper No.
20, mailed March 28, 1998) and the answer (Paper No. 27,
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