Appeal No. 1999-1735 Page 3
Application No. 08/745,978
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a brake actuation
unit. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claim 23, which appears in the appendix
to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Hoenick 4,435,021 March 6,
1984
Rath 4,456,309 June
26, 1984
Akita et al. 5,573,314 Nov. 12,
1996
(Akita) (filed Feb. 22, 1995)
Claims 23 to 38, 41 to 45, 47 and 55 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Hoenick or Rath in
view of Akita.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the answer (Paper No. 15,
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