Appeal No. 1999-0524
Application 08/735,228
adjacent to the door of the vehicle would be defeated.
Clearly, one of ordinary skill in the art would not have been
expected to so substantially modify the Hines teaching that
its objective is defeated. For these reasons, the rejection
of appellant’s claims cannot be sustained.
In summary, this panel of the board has reversed the
examiner’s rejection of claims 4 through 15 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103.
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