Appeal No. 1999-0933 Page 2
Application No. 08/512,396
Appellants' invention relates to an automotive brake-fluid pressure control
apparatus employed for example in traction control during acceleration slippage. A
copy of representative claim 1, the only independent claim on appeal, can be found
in the Appendix to appellants' brief.1
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting
the appealed claims is:
Willmann GB 2 257 214 A Jan. 6,
1993
(Published British Patent Application)
Claims 1 through 4, 6 and 8 through 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Willmann.
1While the examiner has indicated that the copy of the claims in the Appendix
is correct (answer, page 2), we note that the Appendix includes two claims numbered
as “2.” A review of the record shows that the first claim 2 listed in the Appendix is the
correct claim on appeal, while the second claim numbered as “2” was the original
claim that was amended in Paper No. 10, filed August 7, 1997.
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