Appeal No. 96-4122
Application 08/077,419
system which, according to the examiner, uses a road surface-
fixed reference system as an addition to the pre-existing
vehicle chassis control system, and then (3) conclude that it
would have been obvious to one with ordinary skill in the art,
based on Adachi, to add a step of determining vehicle movement
relative to the road surface[-fixed] reference system “from
the corrected vehicle movement signals as disclosed by Majeed”
(answer, at page 4, lines 1-3).
The examiner’s reasoning is largely disjointed, contains
errors regarding the teachings from the prior art, and also
ignores certain claim features.
First, we agree with the appellants that Adachi discloses
only an inertial reference system and not a road surface-fixed
reference system. See the last sentence in appellants’ reply
brief on page 1. It is evident that the reference by the
appellants to an inertial reference system in the last
sentence of the first paragraph on page 2 of the reply brief
is a mistake and is intended to refer to a “road surface-fixed
reference system” rather than to an “inertial reference
system.”
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