Appeal No. 1997-0736
Application No. 08/384,916
compression internal combustion engine. A basic understanding
of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claim 1, a copy of which appears in the APPENDIX to the main
brief (Paper No. 12).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:1
Morikawa 4,995,354 Feb. 26,
1991
Takahashi 5,143,028 Sep.
1, 1992
Ito et al. 5,183,013 Feb. 2,
1993
(Ito)
Torigai et al. 5,207,190 May
4, 1993
(Torigai)
Tanaka 5,361,731 Nov. 8,
1994
(filed Aug. 4, 1993)
The following rejections are before us for review.2
1The Ito and Torigai documents are new references,
applied for the first time in new grounds of rejection in the
main answer (Paper No. 13).
2The listed rejections, the only rejections set forth in
the main answer (Paper No. 13; pages 3 through 7), are
indicated to be new grounds of rejection. While not stated by
the examiner, these rejections obviously replace all of the
rejections found in the final rejection (Paper No. 6).
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