Appeal No. 1996-1300
Application No. 08/076,722
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a deadbolt locking
actuator for a power door latch (specification, p. 1). A copy
of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the
appellants' brief.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Fukumoto et al. (Fukumoto) 5,169,186 Dec. 8, 1992
(filed Jan. 11, 1991)
Claims 7-12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
being anticipated by Fukumoto.2
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejections, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 15, mailed August 11, 1995) and the response to arguments
filed in the supplemental reply brief (Paper No. 22, filed
August 13, 1999) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to the appellants' brief (Paper
No. 14, filed June 21, 1995), reply brief (Paper No. 16, filed
September 18, 1995) and supplemental reply brief (Paper No. 21
2 The rejection Claims 11-12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Fukumoto has been withdrawn by the examiner (answer, page 3).
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