Appeal No. 2000-1995
Application No. 08/850,277
packaging and subsequent set-up of the pump set, and to
eliminate kinking
of the branch lines during use. Representative claim 1 reads
as follows:1
1. A set for conveying blood between a patient and blood
treatment apparatus, which comprises:
blood flow tubing; a connector for connecting the tubing
with a patient’s vascular system; a connector for connecting
the tubing with the blood treatment apparatus; a portion of
said tubing comprising an enlarged-diameter, pump segment
tubing connected at each pump segment tubing end with a pump
tubing connector, each pump tubing connector also connecting
in substantially straight-line relation to another portion of
said blood flow tubing, at least one of said pump tubing
connectors also connecting to a branch line in longitudinal
relation to said other portion of the blood flow tubing
wherein said set may be easily assembled and packaged in an
automated manner.
THE EVIDENCE
The items relied on by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Reed et al. (Reed) 3,944,261 Mar. 16, 1976
Utterberg 5,061,365 Oct. 29,
1991
1The following terms in the appealed claims lack a proper
antecedent basis and are deserving of correction: “said
connectors” (claims 2 through 4, 12 and 18), “said blood flow
conduit” (claims 3, 12 and 16); and “said longitudinally
connected branch lines” (claims 6 and 11).
2
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