Appeal No. 1997-0736
Application No. 08/384,916
light of the disclosure of a single exhaust valve for
controlling a plurality of cylinders in one bank (the Ito
teaching; Fig. 4) to yield first and second exhaust control
valves for a V-type engine actuated by a common actuator, as
required by appellants’
claim 1. As to features in the remaining claims, the examiner
should consider the combined teachings of Ozawa and Ito with
other known prior art.
In summary, this panel of the board has reversed each of
the examiner’s rejections of appellants’ claims under 35
U.S.C. § 103 and remanded the application to the examiner to
consider the matter discussed above.
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