Appeal No. 2000-1476
Application 08/801,918
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 through 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Skantar in view of Yoshino.
Attention is directed to the appellants’ main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 13 and 15) and to the examiner’s final
rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 8 and 14) for the respective
positions of the appellants and the examiner with regard to
the merits of this rejection.
DISCUSSION
Skantar, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses an
electropneumatic railway brake system comprising a cab control
unit 1, a cab display unit 7, a cab control central processing
unit (CPU) 8 and an electropneumatic operating unit 9. The
cab control unit 1 includes a protective housing 2, an
automatic brake handle 3, an independent brake handle 4 and a
keypad 5. The foregoing components relate to one another and
operate as explained by Skantar at column 4, line 12 et seq.
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