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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Efimov et al (US Publication 2011/0009916).
Referring to Claim 1, Efimov et al teaches a system for treating cardiac arrhythmias (e.g. Paragraph [0061] discloses terminating arrhythmias), the system comprising: a generator (e.g. Figure 19A, Element 506) including: a sensing circuitry configured to evaluate one or more identified signals representative of electrical activity of the heart and detect a tachyarrhythmia (e.g. Figure 19A, Element 512 and Paragraphs [0027] and [0079]); a control circuitry that is configured to control delivery of a therapy in response to the detected arrhythmia (e.g. Figure 19A, Element 516 and Paragraph [0110] discloses control circuitry 516, in response to the atrial arrhythmia, controls generation and selective delivery of therapy), the therapy including: a first state of electrical pulses delivered via at least a first electrode, wherein the first set of electrical pulses is configured to destabilize and/or terminate a reentry associated with the arrhythmia (e.g. Figure 10, Element 400 and Paragraph [0103]); a first lead coupled to the generator, wherein the first lead includes the first electrode (e.g. Figure 1A, electrode 11 and Figure 19A, electrodes 502 or 504).
Conclusion
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