Appeal No. 1998-2808
Application No. 08/733,464
The full text of the examiner's rejection and the
responses to the arguments presented by appellants appear in
the final rejection (Paper No. 15) and the answer (Paper No.
22) while the complete statement of appellants’ arguments can
be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 20 and 26,
respectively).
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellants’ specification and the
claims, to the applied prior art reference, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we conclude that
the
§ 103 rejection cannot be sustained.
Claim 7, the only independent claim before us for review,
calls for an implant comprising, inter alia, a rigid body
having a longitudinal axis and a generally continuous helical
thread pattern disposed substantially entirely throughout an
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