Appeal No. 1999-0512
Application No. 08/701,979
Appellants’ invention pertains to an assembly for
delivery and deployment of an inflation expandable stent and
to a method for delivering and deploying a stent using the
specified assembly. A basic understanding of the invention
can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1 and 39,
copies of which appear in the APPENDIX to the main brief
(Paper No. 16).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Ryan et al. 5,108,416 Apr. 28,
1992
(Ryan)
Susawa et al. 5,591,222 Jan. 7,
1997
(Susawa) (filed Mar. 28,
1994)
The following rejections are before us for review.
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