Appeal No. 2000-1279
Application No. 09/053,025
reciprocating piston four-stroke spark ignition internal
combustion engine. A basic understanding of the invention can
be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1, 10, 18, and 1
21, respective copies of which appear in the APPENDIX to the
main brief (Paper No. 10).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Hedelin 4,539,946 Sep. 10, 1985
Hitomi et al 4,958,606 Sep. 25, 1990
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 10 through 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Hitomi.
Claims 1 through 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Hitomi in view of Hedelin.
1The copy of claim 18 appended to the brief includes an
obvious typographical error; on lines 5 and 6 of the claim “,
a cylinder .... maximum power” duplicates language already
present in the claim.
2
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