Appeal No. 1997-2049
Application 08/431,130
contends, however, that
[t]he suggestion [teachings?] of the Boscove et al.
patent in at least figure 3-4, 11 and the related
text would have motivated one of ordinary skill in
the art to modify the teaching [system?] of Abe et
al. by incorporating the off-board controller
including memory means as taught by Boscove into the
teaching [system?] of Abe et al. . . . [Answer,
page 4.]
At the outset, it is not entirely clear to us whether the
examiner proposes substituting an off-board system of the type
shown in Boscove for the memory cartridges of Abe, or
supplementing Abe’s memory cartridges by adding an off-board
system like that of Boscove to the system of Abe. In either
case, the examiner’s position is not well taken. In brief,
the difficulty we have with the rejection is the failure of
the applied references, taken either singly or collectively,
to teach or suggest a vehicle diagnostic tool that includes
both a hand held tool and an off-board master controller that
are connected together to work in tandem. Clearly, the
Boscove system does not include a hand held tool having a
processor and memory means. As for Abe, while we appreciate
that the memory of the hand held tool thereof is ungraded or
augmented by a selected one of the plurality of memory
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