Appeal No. 2000-0948 Page 2
Application No. 08/511,341
The appellants' invention relates to a dual wavelength
surgical laser system for performing laser surgery on living
tissue with a minimum amount of collateral tissue damage. A
copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix
to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Feld et al. 5,312,396 May 17,
1994
(Feld)
Broadly turnable infrared parametric oscillator using AgGaSe ;
2
Eckardt et al.; American Institute of Physics; Sept. 15, 1986;
pp. 608-610
(Eckardt)
Tissue ablation by a free-electron laser turned to the amide
II band; Edwards et al.; Nature; Sept. 29, 1994; pp. 416-419
(Edwards)
Claims 1 and 3 to 24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Feld in combination with
Eckardt and Edwards.
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