Appeal No. 1997-2634
Application 08/222,662
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of claims 1
through 4 and 10 through 13, all the claims remaining in the application. Claims 1 and
10 are reproduced as an Appendix to this opinion.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Schacht et al. (Schacht) 5,104,947 Apr. 14, 1992
Lee 5,306,305 Apr. 26, 19942
Elia et al. (Elia) 5,380,329 Jan. 10, 19953
Laurencin et al. (Laurencin), “Use of Polyphosphazenes for Skeletal Tissue Regeneration,”
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Vol. 27, pp. 963-973 (1993).
The claims stand rejected as follows:
I. Claims 1, 3, 10 and 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Elia, Laurencin and
Schacht.
II. Claims 2 and 11 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Elia and Laurencin.
III. Claims 4 and 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Elia, Laurencin, Schacht
and Lee.
We reverse all three rejections.
DISCUSSION
The specification describes a “synthetic material[] for bone repair and replacement,
. . . particularly a poly(organophosphazene) three dimensional matrix.” Specification, page
2Application for patent filed January 31, 1992.
3Application for patent filed July 28, 1992.
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