Appeal No. 2000-1948 Page 14
Application No. 08/751,087
movable portion of the handle in moving from the implant
capture position to the implant release position will always
engage a detent carried by the handle to prevent continuous
forward-rearward movement of the movable portion of the handle
from the implant capture position to the implant release
position. This is not true of the intermediate recesses that
are suggested by the combined teachings of Robinson and
Williams.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claim 2, and claims 3 to 5, 12 and 16
dependent thereon, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
Claim 17
We will not sustain the rejection of claim 17 under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
Claim 17 reads as follows:
A method for selectively delivering, positioning and
releasing, within a body lumen, a self-expandable implant
having leading and trailing ends comprising:
providing an elongate tubular sheath for maintaining
the implant in a low profile configuration, the sheath
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