Appeal No. 2006-0479
Application No. 10/309,274
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 6-9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 21 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over U.S. Patent
Application Publication No. 2002/0165733 to Pulkkinen et al.
(Pulkkinen) in view of U.S. Patent No. 5,748,907 to Crane and
Official Notice.
Claim 10 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Pulkkinen in view of Crane, Official Notice and
U.S. Patent No. 6,283,761 to Joao.
Attention is directed to the main and reply briefs (filed
November 26, 2003, December 15, 2003 and April 20, 2005) and the
main and supplemental answers (mailed June 18, 2004 and April 8,
2005) for the respective positions of the appellant and examiner
regarding the merits of these rejections.
DISCUSSION
Pulkkinen discloses a system for tracking and monitoring
activities in a health care facility. As summarized by
Pulkkinen:
[0019] . . . In a preferred embodiment, the tracking
environment is a health care facility; the monitored
activities include medical treatment and operational
process events, such as physiological measurements,
patient and caregiver locations, patient, caregiver and
medical equipment proximity information, and evidence
of interventions or actions between a caregiver and a
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