Appeal No. 2004-0479
Application No. 09/780,864
teaches "the hub and catheter are formed as a single piece" as
recited in Appellants' claim 18.
Appellants argue that the Examiner improperly combined
Cambron and Kitou. In particular, Appellants argue that the
combination of Cambron with Kitou is improper since the
Examiner fails to establish a motivation for combining the
references including establishing that the references suggest
the desirability of the claimed invention. See page 7 of the
brief.
We note that the Examiner states that Cambron teaches all
of the limitations of Appellants' claim 18 except for the
limitation "a catheter having a length of at least 12 mm."
See page 5 of the answer.
We find that Cambron teaches catheters that are used for
arterial, intravenous and central line vascular catheters.
See Cambron, column 7, lines 26-32. We further find that
Cambron is silent as to the length of these catheters. We
find that Kitou teaches catheters that are used for an
indwelling catheter to be left in place in a blood vessel to
perform infusion, introduction of a medicinal solution, blood
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