Appeal No. 2001-2021
Application No. 09/206,393
28. Control element arrangement for controlling movement
of a motor vehicle, comprising:
spaced joy sticks adjacent a left hand and a right hand
of a vehicle driver and arranged to be operable independently
of one another
wherein each joy stick is configured to be selectively
operable with the left hand or a right hand of a vehicle
driver for a desired movement of the motor vehicle, one joy
stick being arranged on a transmission tunnel and the other
joy stick being arranged on an interior side of a driver’s
door of the motor vehicle, and at least one of the joy sticks
being removable from its vehicle-interior-side operating
position so as to be operable outside the motor vehicle.
THE REJECTION
Claims 28 through 38 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
112, first paragraph, “as containing subject matter which was
not described in the specification in such a way as to
reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the
inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had
possession of the claimed invention” (final rejection, Paper
No. 20, page 2). The examiner’s explanation of this rejection
focuses on the joy stick limitations in the claims, to wit:
[i]n regards to claims 28-31, 37, and 38, [and
presumably claims 32 through 36 which depend from
claim 31,] Applicant does not properly disclose the
claimed invention in such a way to enable one
skilled in the art how to make or use it. More
specifically, it is unclear in light of the
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