Appeal No. 2000-0328
Application No. 08/863,345 Page 9
Claim 1 recites "tamper indicating means separate from said
alarm means for indicating tampering with said vehicle, and means
for activating said tamper indicating means in response to said
sensing means sensing tampering with said vehicle." We find that
LED 143 of Chang meets the claimed tamper indicating means
separate from said alarm means because Chang discloses alarm 15
to be "first alarm means" and separately discloses LED 143 as an
alarm display. Although the alarm means and the alarm display
are both simultaneously activated, claim 1 does not distinguish
between tamper and alarm means that operate contemporaneously,
and tamper means that are activated after the period of time that
the is activated. In appellant's invention, the alarm is speaker
56 and the tamper indicator is pulsed lamp 62 (specification,
page 8). In addition, of note is the statement in appellant's
specification (id.) that "[w]hile the activation of the strobe
light is preferably contemporaneous with deactivation of the
audible alarm signal, it will be appreciated that the strobe
light can be activated at any time after tampering is detected
and, accordingly, could be activated contemporaneously with
activation of the alarm signal." In Chang, we find that the
alarm is first alarm means 15 and the tamper indicator is LED 143
which flashes. Similarly, both the alarm and tamper indicating
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