Appeal No. 1997-0915
Application 08/369,853
transmitting the conditioned further patient data to said
portable monitor for processing therein during said
patient monitoring; and wherein
said first housing includes first coupling means for
detachably coupling to said second housing, which first
coupling means co-locates the data acquisition cartridge
with the portable monitor during said patient monitoring,
and the first housing includes second coupling means for
detachably coupling to said third housing for receiving
said patient data transmitted from said data acquisition
pod to said portable monitor, which second coupling means
allows said data acquisition pod to be independently
positionable, self-contained, and not co-located with the
portable monitor during said patient monitoring.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Policastro et al. (Policastro) 5,012,411 April 30,
1991
Sasaki et al. (Sasaki) 5,227,988 July 13, 1993
(filed September 2, 1992)
Claims 1-5, 7-13, and 15-27 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the combination of
Policastro and Sasaki.
We refer to the first Office action (Paper No. 13), the
Final Rejection (Paper No. 18) (pages referred to as "FR__")
and the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 22) (pages referred to as
"EA__") for a statement of the Examiner's rejection and to the
Appeal Brief (Paper No. 21) (pages referred to as "Br__") for
a statement of Appellants' arguments thereagainst.
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