Appeal No. 96-4156
Application 08/218,135
produce said steering wheel reaction when said failure
detecting means has detected a failure in said reaction
control means.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:2
O'Neil 4,860,844 August 29, 1989
Yamamoto 5,010,970 April 30, 1991
Nishihara et al. (Nishihara) 5,029,466 July 9,
1991
Claims 1 and 2 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Yamamoto and O'Neil. This is a new
ground of rejection entered in the Examiner's Answer.
Claims 3 and 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Yamamoto, O'Neil, and Nishihara. This
is a new ground of rejection entered in the Examiner's Answer.
We refer to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 20) (pages
referred to as "EA__") and the Response to Reply Brief (Paper
No. 26) for a statement of the Examiner's position and to the
Reply Brief (Paper No. 24) (pages referred to as "RBr__") for
The Examiner's Answer erroneously lists Ito et al.,2
U.S. Patent 4,830,127, Hirose, U.S. Patent 5,014,801, Hattori
et al., U.S. Patent 5,135,069, Nishimoto et al., U.S. Patent
5,360,977, as prior art relied on in the rejection of the
claims on appeal (Examiner's Answer, page 2, Sec. (7)).
However, the rejections over these references have been
withdrawn in favor of a new ground of rejection (Examiner's
Answer, page 7).
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