Ex parte MOSER et al. - Page 3




                 Appeal No. 1998-2838                                                                                     Page 3                        
                 Application No. 08/591,801                                                                                                             


                                                                   BACKGROUND                                                                           
                          The appellants' invention relates to bicycles for                                                                             
                 exercise and/or therapeutic purposes (specification, p. 1).  A                                                                         
                 substantially correct copy of the claims under appeal is set                                                                           
                 forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.                                     1                                                  


                          The prior art references of record relied upon by the                                                                         
                 examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:                                                                                         
                 Lin                                          4,705,493                                             Nov. 10,                            
                 1987                                                                                                                                   
                 Pitzen et al.                                4,923,193                                             May   8,                            
                 1990                                                                                                                                   
                 (Pitzen)                                                                                                                               
                 Taylor                                       5,496,238                                             March 5,                            
                 1996                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                         (filed Aug. 19, 1993)                                          



                          Claims 1, 2, 5, 6, 13, 14 and 17-20 stand rejected under                                                                      
                 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Taylor in view of                                                                           
                 Lin.                                                                                                                                   





                          1We note that the word "identical" was misspelled in                                                                          
                 claims 1 and 13.                                                                                                                       







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