Appeal No. 1999-2032 Page 3
Application No. 08/661,303
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a non-volatile
memory system for use in a vehicle (specification, p. 1, lines
3-4). An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claims 1, 2, 15, 22 and 30 (the
independent claims on appeal), which appear in the appendix to
the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Ahlberg 4,570,228 Feb. 11,
1986
Esmer et al. 5,161,311 Nov. 10,
1992
(Esmer)
Claims 1 to 5, 8, 9, 11 to 19, 21 to 26, 28 to 33 and 35
to 39 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Ahlberg in view of Esmer.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
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