Appeal No. 96-1920
Application 08/218,136
different that there would be no motivation to use Furukawa’s
technique in the Takahashi ’785 steering control system. As
appellant points out, Furukawa is uniquely designed for use in
a system where the steered angle ratio between the rear and
front wheels is modified based on various operating parameters
of the vehicle. Thus, Furukawa is uniquely concerned with a
vehicle having steering wheels in the front and the back and
with the controlling of the rear steering wheels based on the
measured operating parameters. We agree with appellant that
there is no suggestion within the applied references to apply
teachings of Furukawa to the Takahashi ’785 control system.
Therefore, we do not sustain this rejection of claims 3-7.
We now consider the rejection of claims 8-12 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the teachings of
Takahashi ’785 in view of Furukawa, and further in view of
Nishikawa. The examiner has addressed the recitations of
these claims and the obviousness of the differences between
these claims and the applied references on pages 10-11 of the
answer. Appellant again argues that there is no suggestion
to combine the teachings of Takahashi ’785 with Furukawa and
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