Appeal No. 1998-1885
Application No. 07/914,359
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1, 2 and 9-15. Claims 16-21 have been
allowed. See page 4 of the final rejection (Paper No. 18,
mailed
August 20, 1996). Subsequent to the final rejection, claims
4-8, the only other claims remaining in the application, were
rewritten in independent form and have now also have been
allowed. See the examiner’s advisory letter (Paper No. 20,
mailed December 11, 1996).
Appellants’ invention pertains to a power supply
apparatus for an automotive heater component. By way of
example, the heater component may be used to heat a window de-
icer, a catalytic convertor, or the intake air for a diesel
engine (main brief, page 3). Independent claim 1, a copy of
which is found in an appendix to appellants’ main brief, is
illustrative of the appealed subject matter.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
support of the rejections are:
Follmer 4,188,527 Feb. 12, 1980
Wareman et al. (Wareman) 4,780,618 Oct. 25, 1988
Takatsuka 5,013,994 May 07, 1991
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