Appeal No. 1999-2674
Application No. 08/192,979
such as saffire which has a high thermal conductivity.
However, as appropriately acknowledged by the examiner
(answer, page 3), the Sand reference as whole is clearly
deficient in a number of ways relative to the method now
claimed.
To overcome the recognized deficiencies, the examiner
relies upon the respective teachings of L’Esperance, Neefe,
and Baron.
Individually, the teachings of these documents do have some
relevance to aspects of the claimed method.
L’Esperance (column 2, lines 14 through 24) addresses an
ablative decomposition apparatus for fixing the position of an
eye with respect to a scanning laser to effect a desired depth
of ablation as a sculpturing step to arrive at a desired
ultimate surface change in the cornea. As seen in Fig. 2 of
L’Esperance, an eye-retaining fixture is disclosed having a
hollow annulus and a wall 23 of air-permeable material
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