Appeal No. 1998-0726
Application 08/434,919
Claims 5 through 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Milde
alone.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellant and the
examiner, reference is made to the briefs and the answers for
the respective details thereof.
OPINION
Since no specific claim has been argued by appellant in
the brief, we take as a representative claim claim 5. The
focus of the dispute between the examiner and the appellant is
the last clause of this claim which is "turn signal disable
means for inhibiting said driver means from activating said at
least one warning indicator when at least one of said turn
signals is active." A similar limiation is at the end of
independent claim 8.
Since we generally agree with appellant's position set
forth in the brief and the reply brief, we reverse the
rejection of claims 5 through 9 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Although we agree with the examiner's view that turn
signals are well known in the art on vehicles, we do not agree
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