Appeal No. 1999-1054 Page 2
Application No. 08/889,594
The appellants’ invention is directed to an improvement in
semi-active suspension systems. The claims on appeal have been
reproduced in an appendix to the Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Karnopp 5,024,302 Jun. 18,
1991
French Patent (Renault) 2,660,705 Oct. 11,
19911
THE REJECTIONS2
Claims 1 and 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Renault.
Claims 2, 4 and 5-8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Karnopp in view of Renault.
1Our understanding of this reference has been obtained
from a PTO translation, a copy of which is enclosed.
2A rejection of claims 1-8 under the judicially created
doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting was alleviated
by the filing of a terminal disclaimer. A rejection of claims
2 and 4 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, was withdrawn
by the examiner in the Answer.
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