Appeal No. 97-0655
Application 08/294,913
2. The rejection of claims 2, 3 and 5-12 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Pease in
view of Heaton.
These claims all recite the feature of the deadbolt
detecting unit located within the deadbolt receptacle unit for
detecting the presence of the deadbolt cylinder in the
deadbolt receptacle unit. As discussed above, Pease alone
does not teach or suggest this feature of the claimed
invention. Heaton was cited by the examiner as a teaching of
an optical receiver. Since Heaton does not overcome the
deficiencies of Pease discussed above, we do not sustain this
rejection of the claims.
3. The rejection of claims 13-17 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as unpatentable over Pease in view of
Greenwaldt.
This rejection was added as a new ground of rejection
in the examiner’s answer. Greenwaldt was added to the
previous rejection based on Pease taken alone to support the
examiner’s position that a plurality of transmitters would
have been obvious. Greenwaldt does not overcome the
deficiencies of Pease
discussed above. Additionally, a plurality of RF transmitters
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