Appeal No. 2001-0034
Application 08/944,807
The sole reference cited in the final rejection against the
claims is:
White et al. (White) Re. 36,186 Apr. 6, 1999
Claims 1, 4, 6, 8 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over White.
White pertains to “[a] control system for controlling
automatic shifting of a manual/automatic transmission . . .
including a cruise control system and an auto-shift mode for
controlling automatic upshift and downshift operations between
the top two gears of a heavy duty truck transmission” (abstract).
In rejecting the appealed claims as being unpatentable over
White, the examiner notes several of the similarities between the
system of White and that of the claims, including, a
semiautomatic transmission having a number of manually selectable
gear ratios and a number of automatically selectable gear ratios,
a memory unit including a software algorithm for controlling
shifting between the number of automatically selectable gear
ratios, and a control computer for switching between an
operational mode wherein the transmission is shifted between the
automatically selectable gear ratios under the control of the
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