Appeal 2007-1451
Application 09/970,146
1 As to claim 4, Maseda shows its assembly comprising a rheometric material
2 layer on the housing of the device (FF04). Lieber’s electrode is within the device
3 housing and in contact with it, so the housing would be part of the outer surface of
4 the electrode.
5 As to claim 5 and 6, Maseda’s housing can be considered as divided arbitrarily
6 into opposing portions, and since Maseda’s rheometric material may be place in
7 grooves along the body (FF15), at least one predictable way of aligning the
8 grooves is so one strand or electrode is placed in a groove on one side of the
9 catheter, while another strand or electrode is placed in a groove on the opposite
10 side.
11 As to claim 7, the applicant is not claiming a pulse generator, but merely a lead
12 body configured to be coupled to a pulse generator. Since Maseda shows an
13 elongate lead body configured to be coupled with an electrical instrument (FF 16),
14 such a connection would be capable of mating with a pulse generator, either
15 directly or with appropriate adaptors.
16 As to claim 8, Maseda shows its rheometric material comprising an
17 electroactive polymer (FF 04).
18 Thus, all of the subject matter of claim 1 and 3-8 are shown by the combined
19 teachings of Lieber and Maseda. We have found that it would have been obvious
20 to a person of ordinary skill in the art to have combined these teachings, supra.
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