Appeal No. 96-1692
Application 08/156,811
through 5 and 20 on appeal, or of a "method of assembling a land
vehicle" as set forth in appellants' claim 21 on appeal. It
would appear to be the examiner's position that the applied
references somehow each "inherently" teach or suggest the claimed
methods of assembly based simply on the disclosure of a given
type of golf car including, in one case, a chassis and an
electric motor drive system (Gardner) and in another case, a
chassis and an internal combustion engine drive system (Westmont
and Lanius). In this
regard, the examiner has stated on page 7 of the answer
that
the prior art cited and applied to
appellant's [sic] claims has been
selected from a group of drive system
types or selected from a group of body
part types or selected from a group of
body part styles. Although the
reference may show one drive system, or
one body part or one body part style it
meets the claimed recitation of
"selecting a type...from a group of
types...".
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