Appeal No. 98-1531 Page 2
Application No. 08/371,511
seat occupant. 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:
Horan 4,301,983 Nov. 24,
1981
Serber 5,244,252 Sep. 14,
1993
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Serber in view of Horan.
The rejection is explained in the Examiner's Answer.
The opposing viewpoints of the appellant are set forth in
the Brief.
OPINION
All of the claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Serber in view of Horan. The test for
obviousness is what the combined teachings of the prior art
would have suggested to one of ordinary skill in the art. See
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