Appeal No. 2003-0928 Page 2
Application No. 09/692,431
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to accessories for facilitating the alignment of
the hitches of a towing vehicle and a towed vehicle (specification, p. 1). A copy of the
claims under appeal is set forth 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:
Murray 5,035,441 July 30, 1991
Law et al. (Law) 5,269,554 Dec. 14, 1993
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Law.
Claims 2 and 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Law.
Claims 3 and 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Law in view of Murray.
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. 12, mailed December 11, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
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