Appeal No. 2004-1546
Application No. 09/030,989
is said to describe an adapter pod that connects a circuit board to a bus
utilizing different coupling means for the circuit board and the bus. The
Examiner asserts that Omori provides power to slave devices through the
adapter. (Answer, p. 4).
Assuming that the Examiner’s description of the prior art is correct,
the combination of prior art relied upon by the Examiner does not render
the claimed subject matter prima facie obvious. The subject matter of
claims 16, 18 and 21 requires, inter alia, that the adapter pod includes a
controller or means for controlling electrical power to a perfusion device
and for generating messages for the perfusion device and a main
controller of the medical perfusion system. We agree with Appellants, Brief
page 12 and 14, that Dias and Omori do not disclose or suggest a means
for generating messages for both to the main controller and perfusion
device as required by claims 16, 18 and 21. The Examiner did not rely on
the Sites and Schenk references for teaching these limitations of the
claimed invention.
The subject matter of claims 23 and 30 requires, inter alia, that the
adapter pod includes a first connector coupled through a data bus to a
communication network of a medical perfusion system, a second
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