Appeal No. 1999-2087
Application No. 08/595,449
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we have made the
determinations which follow.
Rejection I
With respect to Rejection I, the appellants, on page 4 of
the brief, have provided two groupings of claims, i.e., Group
1: claims 1, 17 and 19; and Group 2: claims 3 through 5.
Thus, in accordance with 37 C.F.R. § 1.192(c)(7), we have
selected claims 1 and 3 as being representative of the
respective claim groupings and will decide the appeal with
respect to Rejection I on the basis of those claims alone.
Claims 1, 17 and 19
After considering the collective teachings of Murphy and
JA 60-7995, we must agree with the examiner that the invention
set forth in claims 1, 17 and 19 would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the
appellants' invention.
Claim 1 calls for an electrically power assisted bicycle
comprising, inter alia, a drive coupling a pedal assembly to a
rear wheel for manual driving of the rear wheel, “an
electrical motor and a transmission for transferring motive
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