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`PSL7003 (CON 3)
`6912
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`64021
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`Philip Scott Lyren
`10/08/2015
`14/878,092
`TITLE OF INVENTION: Hip Implant With An Interface That Connects A Metal Neck Body To A Porous Bone Fixation Body
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`PSL7003 (CON 3)
`Philip Scott Lyren
`10/08/2015
`14/878,092
`TITLE OF INVENTION: Hip Implant With An Interface That Connects A Metal Neck Body To A Porous Bone Fixation Body
`
`6912
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`10/08/2015
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`Philip Scott Lyren
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`PSL7003 (CON 3)
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`6912
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`02/20/2010
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`64021
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`7590
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`PHILIP S. LYREN, PC
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`Wm, OH 44281
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`BISSING. DANIEL1
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`Application No.
`Applicant(s)
`14/878.092
`LYREN, PHILIP SCOTT
` Notice of Allowability
`EXTVTET‘EEEISSING
`9%?”
`32.32"“ '"V°"t°r t° Fi'e’
`No
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`-- The MAILING DA TE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address--
`All claims being allowable, PROSECUTION ON THE MERITS IS (OR REMAINS) CLOSED in this application.
`If not included
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`1. IZI This communication is responsive to the amendmentfiled on 1/26/2016.
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`I] A declaration(s)/affidavit(s) under 37 CFR 1.130(b) was/were filed on
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`2. [I An election was made by the applicant in response to a restriction requirement set forth during the interview on
`requirement and election have been incorporated into this action.
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`;the restriction
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`3. X The allowed claim(s) is/are 21-32 and 39-41. As a result of the allowed claim(s), you may be eligible to benefit from the Patent
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`/YASHITA SHARMA/
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`US. Patent and Trademark Office
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`5. El Examiner's Amendment/Comment
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`Application/Control Number: 14/878,092
`Art Unit: 3738
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`1.
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`The present application is being examined under the pre-AIA first to invent
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`provisions.
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`REASON FOR ALLOWANCE
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`Claim 21 -32 and 39-41 are allowed.
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`The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: The best prior
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`of prior art for Applicant’s claim is Al-Hafez (US 6,361,566) a method, comprising:
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`machining a neck body (see Figs. 1 and 2, element 3) from solid metal to have a base
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`portion (bottom of neck body), a neck portion (top of neck body) that extends outwardly
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`from the base portion and includes a cylindrical configuration with a taper that receives
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`a femoral ball (33), and a male protrusion (bottom rectangular portion of neck body) that
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`extends outwardly from the base portion oppositely from the neck portion and has a
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`polygonal shape in a cross- sectional view; fabricating, separately from the neck body, a
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`bone fixation body (5) has a tapering body with an external bow (see Figs); and
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`permanently connecting, after the bone fixation body is separately fabricated from the
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`neck body, the bone fixation body to the neck body at an interface where the male
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`protrusion extends into and engages the bone fixation body and forms a core for the
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`bone fixation body, the bone fixation body abuts the base portion of the neck body, and
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`the bone fixation body abuts the polygonal shape of the male protrusion in order to
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`provide anti-rotation at the interface between the neck body and the bone fixation body
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`(see Fig. 1). AI-Hafez fails to teach the neck body having an elongated shape that
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`tapers and the bone fixation body being formed of a porous metal structure without a
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`solid metal substrate but with the porous metal structure that extends throughout the
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`bone fixation body, has a size and a shape that emulate a size and a shape of a porous
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`structure of natural human bone, has a trapezoidal shape in a cross-sectional view. The
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`main point of novelty being the solid metal neck body interfacing with and becoming a
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`core for the completely porous bone fixation body.
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