Appeal No. 1998-1537
Application No. 08/134,916
tubes (claims 32 to 35, 42 and 43), and a bicycle frame
component (claim 46), and (except for the correction noted on
page 16 of the examiner's answer) are reproduced in the
appendix of appellants' brief. The particular vehicle with
which appellants' disclosed invention is concerned is a
bicycle having hollow frame tubes and lugs made of all-
composite material.
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Clark 2,080,698 May 18, 1937
Derujinsky 4,900,048 Feb. 13,
1990
Tseng 4,900,049 Feb. 13,
1990
Kyokai (Japanese Kokai) 63-185615 Aug. 1,
19881
The claims on appeal stand finally rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over the following
combinations of references:
(1) Claims 1, 4, 21, 27 to 29, 32, 34 to 36 and 46,
1Although the inventor named in this reference is Mitsuo
Asatani, appellants and the examiner refer to it as "Kyokai."
A translation of this reference was prepared for the PTO in
1996, and a copy was supplied to appellants. Any references
herein to "Kyokai" by page and line are to the translation.
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