Appeal No. 2000-0852 Page 2
Application No. 09/061,314
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a hand brake release handle. An understanding
of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the
appendix to the appellants’ Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Hanahan 1,300,384 Apr. 15, 1919
The admitted prior art as shown in Figure 2 of the appellants’ application.
Claims 1, 3-7, 9-13 and 15-19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over the admitted prior art in view of Hanahan.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the Answer (Paper
No. 13) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the Brief
(Paper No. 12) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 14) for the appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to the
appellants’ specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of
our review, we make the determinations which follow.
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