Appeal No. 2002-0245 Page 2 Application No. 09/202,412 BACKGROUND The appellants' invention relates to a process for controlling the driving behavior of an automotive vehicle . A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief. The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are: Sol et al. (Sol) 5,136,513 Aug. 4, 1992 Ammon 5,548,536 Aug. 20, 1996 Eckert et al. (Eckert) 5,862,503 Jan. 19, 1999 Claims 16 to 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Eckert in view of Sol. Claims 16 to 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Eckert in view of Ammon. Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the answer (Paper No. 20, mailed August 13, 2001) for the examiner's complete reasoning inPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007