Appeal No. 2003-1401
Application No. 08/814,401
Thus, this panel of the Board has before it for review claims 1
through 8, 21, 22, 24 through 26, 28, and 29.
Appellant's invention pertains to a treatment catheter
insert for use within a treatment catheter. A basic
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claims 1 and 8, respective copies of which appear in an
appendix to the brief (Paper No. 23).
As evidence of anticipation and obviousness, the examiner
has applied the documents listed below:
Maguire et al. 4,782,834 Nov. 8, 1988
(Maguire)
Narula 4,882,777 Nov. 21, 1989
Wettermann 5,183,470 Feb. 2, 1993
Imran 5,357,979 Oct. 25, 1994
Forman 5,776,100 Jul. 7, 1998
The following rejections are before us for review.1
Claims 1 through 7 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e) as being anticipated by Forman.
1 A rejection of claims 8, 23 and 30 under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, was withdrawn by the examiner on page 6 of the
answer (Paper No. 26).
2
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