Appeal No. 2004-1546
Application No. 09/030,989
connector coupled to a perfusion system via a data line and a means for
controlling or receiving signals over the data line. Thus, the subject matter
of claims 23 and 30 requires the adapter pod to manipulate the data
transmitted through the adapter pod. The Examiner asserts that Dias and
Sites were cited for teaching a network of medical perfusion devices and
that Omori was cited for teaching an adapter pod that acts as an
interface between a network and a slave device. (Answer, p. 16). We
agree with Appellants, Brief page 12 and 15, that Dias and Omori do not
disclose or suggest controlling or receiving signals over the data line as
required by claims 23 and 30. There is no indication that the data
transmitted through the adapter of Omori is manipulated by the adapter.
Here again, the Examiner did not rely on the Sites and Schenk references
for teaching these limitations of the claimed invention.
For the reasons presented above and in the brief, we reverse the
rejection of claims 16 to 38 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over
the combined teachings of Dias and Omori together or in combination
with Sites and Schenk.
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