Appeal No. 2000-0472
Application No. 08/868,536
The § 102(b) rejection of claim 14 and its dependent claim 15
will accordingly not be sustained.
Rejection (2) - 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
We first note that Folden does not supply the deficiency
in Groshong discussed above. Therefore the rejection of
claims 12 and 13, which are dependent or ultimately dependent
on claim 1, will not be sustained, and we will confine the
following discussion of the § 103 rejection to claims 14 and
15.
The basis of this rejection, as we understand it from
pages 4 and 5 of the final rejection (Paper No. 18), is that
it would have been obvious to utilize a "luer type fitting" as
disclosed by Folden to connect the catheter 10 and connector
30 of Groshong together.
Initially, we note that the examiner's reference to
Groshong's disclosure at col. 5, lines 50 to 53, of a
"standard male fitting" (44) is misplaced, since fitting 44 is
on adapter 42, and adapter 42 is not used to connect the
stylet 28 to the catheter 10. The stylet 28 is connected to
catheter 10 by connector (adapter) 30, and adapter 30,
together with stylet 28, is replaced by adapter 42 after the
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