Appeal No. 2005-1893 Page 2
Application No. 09/418,536
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates in general to defibrillators, particularly automatic
or semi-automatic external defibrillators (specification, p. 1). A copy of claims 1 to 16,
18, 19 and 21 to 28 is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' supplemental brief. A
copy of claim 20 is set forth in the appendix to the examiner's answer.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Powers et al. (Powers) 5,879,374 Mar. 9, 1999
Rockwell et al. (Rockwell) 6,141,584 Oct. 31, 2000
Skelton et al. (Skelton) 6,292,692 Sep. 18, 2001
Claims 1 to 12, 14 and 18 to 28 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
anticipated by or, in the alternative, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Skelton.
Claims 4 and 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Skelton in view of Rockwell.
Claims 13, 15 and 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Skelton in view of Powers.
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