Appeal No. 2000-0206 Page 7
Application No. 08/699,328
information conveyed to the driver by the appellant's first
traffic symbol.
For the reasons set forth above, the examiner has not
established that the claimed subject matter as a whole would have
been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person
having ordinary skill in the art. Thus, the decision of the
examiner to reject claims 5, 6, 11 to 13, 15 and 16 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
New ground of rejection
Under the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we enter the
following new ground of rejection.
Claims 6, 15 and 16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by or, in the alternative, under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as obvious over either the regulatory sign designated R67
in the 1990 Uniform Sign Chart of the California Department of
Transportation (hereinafter "the R67 sign) or the regulatory sign
designated R61-36 in the 1990 Uniform Sign Chart of the
California Department of Transportation (hereinafter "the R61-36
sign) .
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