Appeal No. 1996-2893
Application 08/370,153
[The examiner has left out Boning et al., he has added Damson et al., Laurenz and
Szilagyi in his listing of the references. They are not used in the rejection before us. Also,
the Zhao et al. publication which was used as an alternate to Compton in the final rejection
was not listed in the examiner’s answer].
Harbert 2,841,979 July 8, 1958
Compton et al. (Compton) 3,584,509 Jun 15, 1971
Metz 3,759,151 Sep.18, 1973
Burkel et al. (Burkel) 4,409,815 Oct. 18, 1983
Dietz et al. (Dietz) 4,419,212 Dec. 6, 1983
Boning et al. (Boning) 4,446,723 May 8, 1984
SAE publication entitled "The Cylinder Head Temperature Measurement by Thermal
Imaging Technique" by Zhao et al., October 7-10, 1991.
Claims 1, 4-6, and 9-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over the basic combination of Boning, Dietz and Metz. Claims 2, 7, 15, 17, 19-20, 22, and
24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the basic
combination considered further with Burkel. Claims 3, 8, 16, 18, 21 and 23 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the basic combination considered
further with Compton or Zhao. [Note that the examiner’s reliance on the mere basic
combination in the above rejection of claims 21 and 23 is misplaced. He also needs
Burkel as he did for the rejection of claim 19 in the final rejection. As it turns out, this is
inconsequential].
The examiner further rejected claims 1, 3-6, 8, 10-11, and 16 as being obvious
3
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007