Appeal 2006-1865
Application 09/660,433
Patent 5,802,641
an operator device remote from said clamping device and
actuator device for operating said actuator device to enable said
support device to move simultaneously about both said first and said
second axes in the abduction and lithotomy dimensions; and
4. On November 14, 1997, the Examiner entered a Non-Final Office
Action (“Non-Final Action”).
5. Claims 1-13 were rejected on various grounds.
6. Claims 1-13 were rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph
as being indefinite.
7. Claims 1, 4, 7, and 12, were rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being unpatentable over Klevstad, U.S. Patent 4,426,071.
8. Klevstad is prior art under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b).
9. The Examiner indicated that dependent claims 2, 3, 5, 6, 8-11, and 13,
contained allowable subject matter, but depending from a rejected base claim.
10. On February 17, 1998, Appellant filed an Amendment (“the
Amendment”) responding to the Examiner's First Office Action.
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