Appeal No. 2001-0088 Page 17
Application No. 09/271,571
direction opposite from said first direction wherein said
first and second controls are manually activated.
The appellants further argue (brief, pp. 9-10) with
respect to claim 20 that neither reference discloses the pedal
position be adjustable by both manual activation and remote
activation. However, this further argument is unpersuasive
since it is our conclusion that the subject matter of claim 20
would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to
a person having ordinary skill in the art from the combined
teachings of Cicotte and Murphy.
As pointed out above with respect to claim 16, the
combined teachings of Cicotte and Murphy are suggestive of the
remote activation of the pedal position. As to the manual
activation of the pedal position, it is our view that such
would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to
a person having ordinary skill in the art from the teachings
of Cicotte. In that regard, Cicotte teaches that his motor is
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