Appeal No. 97-1147
Application 08/349,087
Claims 1 through 3, 5, 6, 8 through 12 and 16 through 18 have
been canceled.
Appellants' invention is directed to a centrifugal clutch
for use in a power door lock actuator. A copy of independent
claims 4 and 7 on appeal may be found in the Appendix to
appellants' brief.
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness of the claimed subject
matter is:
Kagiyama et al. (Kagiyama) 4,520,914 Jun. 04,
1985
Claims 4 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Kagiyama.
Reference is made to the final rejection (Paper No. 8,
mailed April 22, 1996) and to the examiner's answer (Paper No.
15, mailed October 16, 1996) for the examiner's full reasoning
in support of the above-noted rejection. A complete exposition
of appellants' arguments thereagainst are found in the appeal
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