Appeal No. 2001-1469
Application No. 09/001,284
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A system for storing a medical image comprising:
a plurality of storage devices;
a clinical information system comprising patient diagnostic information associated
with a medical image; and
a medical image management system, coupled with the plurality of storage
devices and the clinical information system;
wherein the clinical information system is operative to send patient diagnostic
information to the medical image management system and wherein the medical image
management system is operative to automatically select a storage device in which to
store the medical image by analyzing the patient diagnostic information and is further
operative to store the medical image in the selected storage device.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Orphanoudakis et al. (Orphanoudakis), “Development of an Integrated Image
Management and Communication System on Crete,” Medical Information Systems
Laboratory Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, 1995, pp. 1-6.
Claims 1-11 and 13-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) as being
anticipated by the disclosure of Orphanoudakis.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellant or the examiner, we make
reference to the briefs and the answer for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on appeal, the rejection advanced
by the examiner and the evidence of anticipation relied upon by the examiner as
support for the rejection. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken into consideration, in
reaching our decision, the appellant’s arguments set forth in the briefs along with the
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