Appeal No. 2002-0355 Page 2
Application No. 09/291,330
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a capacitive angle sensor. An understanding of
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the
appendix to the appellant's Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Bollhagen et al. (Bollhagen) 5,077,635 Dec. 31, 1991
German Patent Document DE 43 22 750 Jan. 12, 1995
(Wolfram)1
Claims 1-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Wolfram in view of Bollhagen.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Answer (Paper
No. 13) and the final rejection (Paper No. 8) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to the Brief (Paper No. 12) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 15)
for the appellant's arguments thereagainst.
1The first named of the multiple inventors is Wolfram Kern, but the examiner has referred to the
reference as “Wolfram,” and for the sake of continuity we shall do the same. Our understanding of this
reference was obtained from a PTO translation, a copy of which is enclosed.
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