Appeal No. 2003-0583
Application No. 09/270,688
Even having determined the claimed scope covers a foot
wearing a compression sock, we find that Garuet-Lempirou teaches
digitizing a human foot. See column 4, lines 14-16, column 5,
lines 3-5, and column 5 57-58. We do note that Figure 1 shows a
foot 4 wearing some sort of material. We note that Garuet-
Lempirou teaches digitizing a human foot in the natural state as
well. We note that Garuet-Lempirou does teach in column 1, lines
48-55 that one embodiment would be to enclose the foot in a
support stocking. However, Garuet-Lempirou makes it clear that
this is a non-limiting example. See column 1, lines 53-54.
Garuet-Lempirou states that in the first family of applications,
the invention is used to digitize a human member and in
particular a human foot to plot its volume. See column 1, lines
49-52. Therefore, we find that Garuet-Lempirou does teach
"randomly positioning a foot to be measured on a laser scanning
station" as recited in Appellants' claims.
Appellants further argue that Sundman does not disclose or
suggest "scanning the undersurface of the foot with at least one
laser scanning unit by directing at least one line of laser light
along the undersurface" as recited in Appellants' claim 1. As we
have already found above, Garuet-Lempirou teaches scanning the
undersurface of a foot. However, Appellants further argue that
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