Appeal No. 2002-0104
Application No. 09/254,605
pacemaker, teaches a plurality of wires comprising a low-
resistive material (silver) encased in an exterior jacket of
high-resistive material (a cobalt alloy). Dahl discloses that
"[c]onductors fabricated in this fashion possess the property of
unusually high flexibility, fatigue resistance and conductivity"
(column 5, lines 58-60). Accordingly, based on the collective
teachings of Comte and Dahl, we agree with the examiner's
reasoning that it would have been obvious for one of ordinary
skill in the art to construct the conductors of Comte, which
comprise both high-resistive and low-resistive materials, in the
manner disclosed by Dahl, i.e., a low-resistive material encased
in a high-resistive material.
Appellant's arguments, for the most part, are not germane to
the scope of protection sought by claim 11 on appeal. Appellant
maintains that:
[E]ven if the Examiner considers the stranded wire
bundles 11 in the Comte reference to correspond to the
side-by-side wires of claim 11 of the present
application, then of those side-by-side wires, one of
those wires, according to claim 11, must comprise a
low-resistive conductor, and at least two of those
wires must comprise high-resistive conductors.
(Page 10 of Brief, second paragraph). However, appellant's
argument is only meaningful if it is based upon an interpretation
of claim 11 wherein the claimed wire comprising a low-resistive
-5-
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007