Appeal No. 2007-0671 Page 12
Application No. 10/836,174
electronic circuit is permanently attached to the canister so that the whole device
will be discarded when the medication in the canister is depleted. Then we
encourage the examiner to consider Mishelevich, and any other available prior
art4 alone or in combination teach or suggest a device having the requirements of
appellant’s claimed invention.
REVERSED-IN-PART, VACATED-IN-PART, and REMANDED-IN-PART
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Donald E. Adams )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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) BOARD OF PATENT
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Demetra J. Mills ) APPEALS AND
Administrative Patent Judge )
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Lora M. Green )
Administrative Patent Judge )
4 In this regard, we note that appellant’s specification discloses that “[t]he electronic circuitry may
be the same as the circuitry described in . . . Samiotes et al.[,] Patent [No.] 5,505,192, permitting
the PCB [3] and its components to be used in the dispenser shown in that patent or in the
“disposable” dispenser contemplated by the present invention.”
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