Appeal No. 1997-2964
Application No. 08/531,103
The appellant's invention is directed to a throttle valve
arrangement for an internal combustion engine. The claims
before us on appeal have been reproduced in an appendix to the
Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Lamm 3,620,195 Nov. 16,
1971
Ishida et al. 4,462,358 Jul. 31, 1984
(Ishida)
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Lamm in view of Ishida.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner’s full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejection and the
conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellant regarding the rejection, we make reference to the
final rejection (Paper No. 7) for the reasoning in support of
the rejections, and to the Appellant’s Brief (Paper No. 9),
for the opposing viewpoints.
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