Appeal No. 95-4678
Application 08/097,572
iii. an emergency electric power supply
located within said emergency power
pack housing enclosure and
operationally connected to said at
least one low voltage emergency
lamp for supplying power to said at
least one low voltage emergency
lamp; and
iv. an emergency electric power circuit
within said emergency power pack housing
enclosure for detecting failure of
said primary electric power circuit
and for switching to said emergency
electric power supply.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Shine 3,931,689 Jan. 13, 1976
Duncan, 686,796 Jan. 28, 1953
British Patent Document
Claims 1 through 9, 14 through 22 and 28 through 31 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Duncan
in view of Shine.
Reference is made to the appellants’ main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 41 and 45) and to the examiner’s main and
supplemental answers (Paper Nos. 43 and 46) for the respective
positions of the appellants and the examiner with regard to the
propriety of these rejections. To support their position that
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