Appeal No. 2004-2032
Application No. 09/729,498
24. A method of controlling the operation of at least one
pharmaceutical compounder adapted to selectively transfer
prescribed amounts of pharmaceutical components from individual
source containers through elongated hollow transfer means to a
final container in order to prepare a prescription admixture, the
method utilizing a computing means having memory means for storing
instructions for operating the apparatus and for controlling the
compounders to prepare a prescribed admixture, with the memory
means including data relating to a plurality of the pharmaceutical
components that may be transferred to prepare the prescription
admixture, and data concerning the operating characteristics of at
least one of the compounders that the apparatus is adapted to
control, the computing means including at least one communication
port for establishing a communication link with each compounder
that is to be controlled, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving a prescription admixture in the computing means;
identifying and determining the amounts of the pharmaceutical
components of the prescription admixture;
determining the compatibility of the pharmaceutical components
relative to one another;
determining the order in which the components are transferred
during the preparation of the prescription admixture; and,
communicating the instructions for preparing the prescription
admixture to the at least one compounder that is to be used in
preparing the prescription admixture.
The references relied upon by the Examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Lewis et al. (Lewis) 5,228,485 Jul. 20,1993
Baxter “Multitask Operating System for Automix® Compounders Version
2.30" Operator’s Manual, May 1999
Claims 1-4, 10 and 24-27 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
as being anticipated by Lewis.
Claims 5, 9, 11, 14-18, 22, 30 and 31 are rejected under
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