Appeal No. 2000-0433
Application 08/741,070
of the fixation members would have both coating and enlarged
anchor
structures and that claim 20 requires that the lens bonding
regions have no coating and no enlarged anchor structure.
We do not agree with the appellants that claim 20
requires that the lens bonding region has no enlarged anchor
structures. Claim 20 recites “placing the lens bonding region
including no coating and no enlarged anchor structures into
said recess.” As such, claim 20 requires only that the
fixation member has no enlarged anchor structure when it is
placed in the recess of the optic. Korgel teaches at column
5, lines 30-37 that the haptic end portion is swollen by the
laser energy once it is placed in the recess of the optic. As
such, Korgel clearly discloses placing a haptic without an
enlarged anchor structure in the recess of the optic. In
addition, Korgel does not disclose a coating on the haptic.
Therefore we will sustain the examiner’s rejection of claim
20.
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