Appeal 2007-2413
Application 10/041,117
DISCUSSION
Claims 1, 6, 21, and 24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Rhodes. As Appellants do not argue the claims
separately, we focus our analysis on independent claim 1. 37 C.F.R.
§ 41.37(c)(1)(vii).
The Examiner cites the reference numbers of Figure 1 in the rejection.
Figure 1 of Rhodes is a front plan illustration of a preferred embodiment of
the prosthesis taught by Rhodes and is reproduced below (Rhodes, col. 5, ll.
46-52).
According to the Examiner, Rhodes teaches a system for bypassing an
aneurysm, the system having a first prosthesis (20A) defining a flow conduit
having a proximal (top) end and a distal end, such that the conduit comprises
a stent structure (26, 28) and a graft (22) covering the stent structure
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