Appeal No. 2002-0584
Application 08/321,028
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 through 29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Weisman in view of Takeuchi.
Attention is directed to the appellant’s main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 9 and 11) and to the examiner’s first Office
action and answer (Paper Nos. 3 and 10) for the respective
positions of the appellant and the examiner with regard to the
merits of this rejection.1
DISCUSSION
I. The references
Weisman, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a
method and system for controlling an internal combustion diesel
engine 22 composed of a plurality of electronic unit injectors 34
corresponding to respective engine cylinders and a plurality of
sensors 36 for detecting various engine operating conditions (see
column 6, lines 20 through 25). The control system includes an
electronic control unit 20 comprising a microprocessor 24,
volatile RAM 26, non-volatile ROM 28, and optionally other types
of memory such as EPROM AND EEPROM, with the ROM containing
1 Although the examiner refers in the answer to the final
rejection (Paper No. 7) for an explanation of the rejection, the
explanation actually appears in the first Office action.
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