Appeal No. 97-1114 Page 3
Application No. 08/222,643
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a vertical takeoff and
landing mass transit system. A copy of claims 6 through 15 and
17 appear in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of anticipation under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) and
obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Callison 1,818,841 Aug. 11, 1931
Roth 1,921,043 Aug. 8, 1933
Additional references of record relied on by this Board
are:2
Gilbert 3,605,935 Sep. 20, 1971
Kappus 3,618,875 Nov. 9, 1971
Claim 6 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Roth.
Claims 13, 14, 15 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Roth.
2These references were cited by the examiner in Paper No. 3
and copies are of record in the application file.
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