Ex parte WEIGL et al. - Page 3




                 Appeal No. 2000-0341                                                                                                                   
                 Application No. 08/849,169                                                                                                             


                          3 . A theft protection system for a motor vehicle,1                                                                                                                           
                 comprising:                                                                                                                            
                          a motor control device (31) in the vehicle;                                                                                   
                          a blocking control device (30) in the vehicle, for                                                                            
                 releasing the motor control device (31);                                                                                               
                          a transmitting/receiving device (21) that is connected to                                                                     
                 the blocking control device;                                                                                                           
                          a device (32) for detecting a vehicle use parameter                                                                           
                 (T,S),                                                                                                                                 
                 which is connected to the blocking control device (30); and                                                                            
                          a locally fixed second transmitting/receiving device (11)                                                                     
                 that does not belong to the vehicle;                                                                                                   
                          wherein the blocking control device (30) requests                                                                             
                 the feeding of a new release information from the locally                                                                              
                 fixed first transmitting/receiving device (11) via the                                                                                 
                 second transmitting/receiving device (21) on the vehicle                                                                               
                 itself once the detected vehicle use parameter (T,S) reaches a                                                                         
                 predetermined limit value and limits the use of the vehicle if                                                                         
                 a new release information does not arrive.                                                                                             









                          1The amendment after the final rejection, Paper No. 10,                                                                       
                 has been approved for entry by the Examiner; however, it has                                                                           
                 not been physically entered into the claims.  We leave it to                                                                           
                 the Examiner to assure the entry of this amendment into the                                                                            
                 claim.                                                                                                                                 
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