Appeal No. 2002-0933
Application No. 09/325,944
over which appellant's invention is an improvement. Note, for
example, the afterloader (26) of Rague, which includes a flexible
drive member (40) carrying radiation sources (28) at its output
end and a conduit (42) through which the flexible drive member is
driven so as to allow the radiation sources (28) to pass from the
afterloader into the transport tube (22) and subsequently into
the applicator (14) for proper placement within a patient. It is
clear from appellant's disclosure, and that of Rague, that the
output end of the flexible drive member carrying the radiation
sources, when in its stowed position within the afterloader, will
be housed in a shielding safe similar to that seen in Rague at
(46) located at a first end of the afterloader conduit, and that
the first end of the conduit is, in this manner, "operatively
associated with" the output portion of the drive member.
Since we are convinced that the disclosure as originally
filed would have clearly conveyed to those skilled in the art
that appellant had invented the subject matter claimed, the
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