Appeal No. 2000-0212
Application 08/914,477
vehicles utilizing remote controlled or electro-mechanical
guidance systems,” citing col. 1, lines 26 to 35. The cited
portion of Travers does disclose that toy vehicles having,
e.g., “intricate electro-mechanical guidance systems to
control the direction of the vehicle” are unsatisfactory.
However, we do not consider that this would have dissuaded one
of ordinary skill from modifying the Travers vehicle as
proposed by the examiner, since we do not believe that at the
time the present invention was made remote-controlled motors
as disclosed by George would have been considered an
“intricate” system.
We accordingly will sustain the rejection of claim 9, as
well as the rejection of claims 1 to 4, appellants having
grouped those claims with claim 9.
Claim 14 requires that “said wheels extend beyond said
frontal end [of the body].” The examiner asserts that such a
modification of the toy car of Travers would have been obvious
in view of George’s disclosure of forwardly-extending wheels
so that the vehicle can bounce off of a wall or obstacle and
climb up a near vertical wall (answer, pages 5 and 6), but we
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