Appeal No. 2003-2125 Page 2
Application No. 09/168,153
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention generally relates to nuclear medicine, and systems for
obtaining nuclear medicine images of a patient's body organs of interest. In particular,
the appellant's invention relates to systems and methods for obtaining nuclear medicine
images by detecting coincident events resulting from positron annihilation (specification,
p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellant's
brief.
Claims 1 to 6 and 9 to 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over U.S. Patent No. 5,866,9071 to Drukier et al. (Drukier).
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the final
rejection (Paper No. 17, mailed December 19, 2001) and the answer (Paper No. 22,
mailed August 23, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the
rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 21, filed June 10, 2002) and reply brief (Paper No.
23, filed October 23, 2002) for the appellant's arguments thereagainst.
1 Issued February 2, 1999.
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