Appeal No. 97-1025
Application No. 08/183,571
window controls and windshield wipers as set forth in independent
claims 4, 6, 23 and 35.
For the above reasons, the rejection of independent claims
1, 3, 4, 6, 23 and 35, as well as their dependent claims 2, 5, 7,
8, 10 to 12, 20, 21, 25 to 33, 37, 38, 43 and 44, as being
anticipated by Niemeyer is not sustained.
Rose
We do not sustain the rejection of claims 1, 2, 5 to 7, 20
to 33, 37 and 38 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by
Rose.
Rose does not disclose a plurality of control pads
positioned in a separate "open at one side recess" as set forth
in independent claims 1, 6 and 23. Additionally, Rose does not
disclose that the devices being controlled being selected from a
group consisting of a radio, air conditioning, heater, defroster,
window controls and windshield wipers as set forth in independent
claims 6 and 23.
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