14. Bilstad independent Claims 57, 62 and 65 are reproduced below:
57. A sterilization apparatus comprising, an electron beam tube having a
window permitting emergence of an electron beam from said tube into an
ambient gaseous environment while preserving a vacuum environment in the
tube, the electron beam having a trajectory within a plasma cloud defining a
reactive volume stimulated by interaction of the electron beam with the
ambient environment, with a beam energy less than 100 kV at the target, and
a moveable member manipulating obiects in a pluralily of directions within
the reactive volume wherein the manipulated objects are sterilized.
62. A sterilization apparatus comprising, a chamber with ports allowing
insertion of objects to be sterilized and having a gaseous environment therein,
a plurality of vacuum tubes fixed relative to the chamber, each emitting an
electron beam along apath into the chamber through a window separating the
gaseous environment of the chamber from the vacuum of the tube, the beam
paths from the tubes within a common plasma cloud stimulated by the
electron beams interacting with the gaseous environment within the chamber,
defining a volume associated with the plasma cloud wherein the obj ects to be
sterilized are exposed to the plasma cloud, and at least one moveable member
manipulating objects in a plurality of directions in the reactive volume
wherein manipulated objects are sterilized.
65. A sterilization apparatus comprising, a single electron beam tube having
a window permitting emergence of an electron beam from said tube into an
ambient gaseous environment while preserving a vacuum environment in the
tube, the electron beam having a trajectory within a plasma cloud defining a
reactive volume stimulated by interaction of the electron beam with the
ambient environment, with abeam of energy less than 100 kV at the target,
and an automated moveable member for manipulating obiects, including
objects that differ in variety, size and shape from the objects to which they
arejoined, in a plurality of directions within the reactive volume wherein the
manipulated objects are sterilized by said single electron beam tube.
Bilstad Application 09/294,964, Paper 15, pp. 4-5 (emphasis added).
Wakalopulos' Motion
15. Wakalopulos asserts that all of Bilstad's involved claims are unpatentable under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, 11, because the specification does not provide a written description of the subject
matter of those claims.
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