Appeal No. 2005-1893 Page 4
Application No. 09/418,536
Claims 1 and 19, the only independent claims on appeal, read as follows:
1. A method of reviewing incident data on an external defibrillator having a
screen, comprising:
deploying the defibrillator for use in an emergency, wherein the
defibrillator is attached to a patient;
monitoring ECG data from the patient;
recording the monitored ECG data in memory; and
activating an incident review mode in which the previously recorded ECG
data stored in memory and the currently monitored information are displayable
simultaneously on the defibrillator screen of the defibrillator while the patient is
being monitored by the defibrillator without the need to attach the defibrillator to
another external device for display, and said recorded ECG data also being
displayable offline.
19. An external defibrillator comprising:
a controller;
an energy delivery system operable by the controller to deliver an
electrical shock from an energy source to an electrode interface;
memory for recording incident data;
a screen;
an incident review activator; and
an incident review output comprising a visual image generator, wherein
the incident review output retrieves the incident data from memory upon
activation of the incident review activator by the user and simultaneously displays
the retrieved incident data on the defibrillator screen and the current patient
monitoring while the patient is being monitored by the defibrillator without
requiring communication with an external device.
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art reference discloses,
expressly or under the principles of inherency, each and every element of a claimed
invention. RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221
USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). In other words, there must be no difference between
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